NUCLEAR WEAPONS

The new restrictions largely target coal, Pyongyang’s single-largest export item, and will cut the reclusive East Asian country’s earnings by at least $800 million.

In an ironic twist, President-elect Donald Trump may appoint the former Texas governor as head of a department Perry said he would abolish during the 2011 election race.

Thursday's talks in Tokyo mark the fifth such meeting between the three nations, the first of which was held in Washington in April 2015.

Officials called the United Nations' sanction resolutions “illegal criminal documents” orchestrated by the U.S., adding that Pyongyang's mission to develop its nuclear stockpile will continue.

The Musudan missile, which was allegedly launched Saturday near the northwestern city of Kusong, “did not pose a threat to North America,” the Pentagon said.

Pyongyang conducted its first successful nuclear test on Oct. 9, 2006, and has carried out four more since, the fifth and its biggest yet earlier this year.

The two countries had signed an agreement in August 2000 to dispose at least “34 metric tons of weapon-grade plutonium removed from their respective defense programs.”

The workers were allegedly involved in illegally financing the procurement of arms and ammunition for North Korea’s banned nuclear program, a South Korean daily reported Monday.

The reclusive nation called its diplomat who recently defected to South Korea a “criminal” and “human scum” in its first official response to the defection.

Fifty prominent Republican national security officials, including a former CIA director, call party nominee Donald Trump unqualified to lead the country.

Over 50,000 people attended a memorial ceremony at Hiroshima’s Peace Park where Japanese officials called for a world free of nuclear weapons.

North Korea said that it will continue to bolster its nuclear capabilities and slammed the U.S. for bringing in strategic assets to the Korean Peninsula.

The country’s top official for U.S. affairs dismissed criticism over Wednesday’s missile launch and said that Pyongyang’s real provocation was coming from Washington.

Beijing will stop the export of technology and materials with potential military use to North Korea, in compliance with U.N. sanctions.

China is seen as leading opposition to a U.S. move to include India in the 48-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group.

A U.S. assessment came a day after the U.N. nuclear watchdog said it had “indications” Pyongyang has reactivated a plutonium plant.

There have been indications that the Yongbyon plant is processing spent fuel, the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog agency said.

The Treasury Department called Pyongyang a “primary money laundering concern,” and announced new restrictions to cut access to global banking systems.

The U.S. president culminated his trip to Japan with a historic visit to Hiroshima, which was targeted by an American atomic bomb, saying: “The memory of the morning of Aug. 6, 1945, must never fade.”

The comments by the Japanese prime minister come ahead of U.S. President Barack Obama’s historic trip to Hiroshima later this week.

The longtime priest's efforts against the Vietnam War during the late 1960s landed him in a federal prison in 1970.