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Residents in Australian coastal town protest against AUKUS nuclear submarine base

STORY: Residents in Australian coastal town protest against AUKUS nuclear submarine base SHOOTING TIME: May 4, 2024 DATELINE: May 5, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:44 LOCATION: WOLLONGONG, Australia CATEGORY: MILITARY/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the protest 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): ALEXANDER BROWN, Founding member of Wollongong Against War and Nukes 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): ARTHUR RORRIS, Secretary of the South Coast Labour Council in New South Wales 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): ALEXANDER BROWN, Founding member Wollongong Against War and Nukes STORYLINE: Some local residents rallied in a town on Australia's eastern coast on Saturday to protest against possible plans to establish a local base for nuclear submarines as part of the AUKUS agreement. Members and supporters of the local activist group Wollongong Against War and Nukes (WAWAN) joined the annual May Day March in Wollongong, some 85 km south of Sydney, to voice their concerns. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): ALEXANDER BROWN, Founding member of Wollongong Agai

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Abe, Singh adopt road map for ties, differ on climate, nukes

NEW DELHI, India - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) and his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh shake hands after signing a joint statement and other documents in New Delhi on Aug. 22. The two leaders worked out a ''road map'' for stronger bilateral ties but differences remained over global warming and the U.S.-India nuclear accord. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Abe, Singh adopt road map for ties, differ on climate, nukes

NEW DELHI, India - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (2nd from right) and his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh (3rd from left) are in talks in New Delhi on Aug. 22. The two leaders worked out a ''road map'' for stronger bilateral ties but differences remained over global warming and the U.S.-India nuclear accord. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Abe, Singh adopt road map for ties, differ on climate, nukes

NEW DELHI, India - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) and his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh hold a joint press conference after their talks in New Delhi on Aug. 22. They worked out a ''road map'' for stronger bilateral ties, but differences remained over global warming and the U.S.-India nuclear accord. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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People stage sit-in to call for elimination of nukes

NAGASAKI, Japan - People observe a moment of silence in front of the Peace Statue amid the falling snow in Nagasaki City, Japan, on Jan. 1, 2015, during a sit-in to call for the elimination of nuclear weapons. Following Hiroshima, Nagasaki was hit by an atomic bomb in the closing days of World War II in 1945.

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U.S., S. Korean reps to close ranks on N. Korean nukes

SEOUL, South Korea - Sung Kim (L), U.S. special representative for North Korea policy, shakes hands with Hwang Joon Kook, South Korea's special representative for Korean Peninsula peace and security affairs, before their talks in Seoul on Dec. 5, 2014, to discuss North Korea's nuclear program.

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Pope Francis says mankind has not learned lesson on nukes

ROME, Italy - Pope Francis meets with reporters on Nov. 30, 2014, during a flight returning from a visit to Turkey. He expressed concern over the continued threat posed by nuclear weapons nearly 70 years after the end of World War II, saying "mankind has learned nothing" from the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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World conference against nukes held in Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Koichi Kawano, chairman of the Japan Congress Against A- and H-Bombs, speaks at a meeting of the World Conference Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs in Hiroshima, western Japan, on Aug. 4, 2014.

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Antinuclear activists call for banning nukes at U.N.

NEW YORK, the United States - Hiroshi Takakusaki (L), a representative of the Japan Council against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs (Gensuikyo), presents a petition signed by heads of municipal governments in Japan calling for a complete ban on nuclear arsenals to Enrique Roman-Moray, who chairs the third session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2015 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, at U.N. headquarters in New York on May 2, 2014, with Angela Kane, the U.N. high representative for disarmament affairs, looking on.

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Nagasaki mayor asks students in N.Y. to think whether nukes needed

NEW YORK, the United States - Tomihisa Taue, mayor of the atomic-bombed city of Nagasaki, gives a speech to high school students at the Japan Society in New York on April 29, 2014. He urged about 200 students from schools in the city and elsewhere including Japanese students in the United States to "think with your heart if the world really needs nuclear weapons."

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Noda meets antinuclear rally hosts

TOKYO, Japan - Members of the Metropolitan Coalition Against Nukes, organizers of weekly antinuclear demonstrations in front of the prime minister's office, give a press conference at a Diet facility in Tokyo on Aug. 22, 2012, after holding talks with Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda.

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Noda meets antinuclear rally hosts

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (far L) holds talks on Aug. 22, 2012, at his office in Tokyo with members of the Metropolitan Coalition Against Nukes (R side), organizers of weekly antinuclear demonstrations in front of his office.

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Nobel Peace laureates gather in Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - People against nuclear weapons form a ''Ban Nukes!'' message by lining up candles at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on Nov. 11, 2010. The city, hit by a U.S. atomic bomb in 1945, hosts the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates from Nov. 12 to 14, 2010.

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Ministry viewed nukes entry into Japan as effective deterrent in 1960s

TOKYO, Japan - Diplomatic documents totaling 8,100 pages are unveiled to the media at the Diplomatic Record Office of the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on July 7, 2010. The documents consist of eight files concerning the revision of the Japan-U.S. security treaty in 1960 and 29 files concerning the reversion of U.S.-occupied Okinawa to Japan in 1972.

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Legality of nukes 'difficult to imagine': Red Cross

GENEVA, Switzerland - International Committee of the Red Cross President Jakob Kellenberger speaks during an interview with Kyodo News at the ICRC's headquarters in Geneva on April 20, 2010. Kellenberger said the compatibility of nuclear weapons with international law ''is very difficult to imagine.''

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Okada says suspicion nukes brought in cannot be dispelled

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada speaks during a news conference at his ministry on March 9, 2010, after the revelation by a ministry panel of a Cold War-era tacit agreement between Japan and the United States on the introduction of nuclear arms into Japan. Okada said he cannot completely dispel the suspicion that nuclear weapons were brought into Japan, in light of the revelation.

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Okada says suspicion nukes brought in cannot be dispelled

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada speaks during a news conference at his ministry on March 9, 2010, after the revelation by a ministry panel of a Cold War-era tacit agreement between Japan and the United States on the introduction of nuclear arms into Japan. Okada said he cannot completely dispel the suspicion that nuclear weapons were brought into Japan, in light of the revelation.

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Okada says suspicion nukes brought in cannot be dispelled

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada speaks during a news conference at his ministry on March 9, 2010, after the revelation by a ministry panel of a Cold War-era tacit agreement between Japan and the United States on the introduction of nuclear arms into Japan. Okada said he cannot completely dispel the suspicion that nuclear weapons were brought into Japan, in light of the revelation.

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Pakistan needs more nukes: gov't spokesman

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesman Abdul Basit speaks during an interview with Kyodo News at the Foreign Ministry on Feb. 20, 2010. Basit said Pakistan will not sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty as its reliance on nuclear weapons as a deterrent against India is growing as the gulf in the two countries' defense capabilities widens.

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Japan set narrow territorial waters along straits for U.S. nukes

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken by the Maritime Self-Defense Force in May 2000 shows an intelligence-gathering vessel of the Chinese navy (front) sailing in Japanese territorial waters near the Shimokita Peninsula in Aomori Prefecture, while the Japanese escort vessel Sawayuki of the MSDF monitors the Chinese ship. (Photo courtesy of the Maritime Self-Defense Force)

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Atomic bomb survivors call for elimination of nukes at int'l meeting

WASHINGTON, Japan - (From L to R) Setsuko Thurlow, 77, and 80-year-old Mikiso Iwasa and Shoo Michigami -- survivors of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- answer questions from reporters at a news conference in Washington D.C. on Feb. 14 after they called for the elimination of nuclear weapons at a meeting of an international nuclear nonproliferation commission there. Speaking for the first time before the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament, the survivors sought a new trend toward nuclear arms abolition on the occasion of the launch last month of the administration of new U.S. President Barack Obama.

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Uranium for 20 nukes repatriated from Japan in U.S. operation

TOKYO, Japan - This November file photo shows Kyoto University's research reactor in a suburban area of Osaka, from which highly enriched uranium has been removed for repatriation to the United States. The reactor will be converted to a low enriched uranium-fueled reactor by summer 2009.

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N. Korea defends self at U.N. over nukes

NEW YORK, United States - Pak Kil Yon, North Korea's vice minister of foreign affairs, addresses a session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York on Sept. 27. Pak defended his country's resumption of its nuclear activities while slamming Japan for being a ''war criminal state'' unsuited to becoming a permanent U.N. Security Council member.

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G-8 stresses need to verify N. Korea nukes

KYOTO, Japan - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (L) and Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura attend a joint news conference in Kyoto on June 27 after the end of the two-day meeting of foreign ministers from the Group of Eight nations.

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G-8 stresses need to verify N. Korea nukes

KYOTO, Japan - Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura, who chaired a two-day meeting of foreign ministers from the Group of Eight nations, speaks during a joint news conference in Kyoto on June 27 after the end of the meeting.

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Hiroshima mayor denounces nukes at Vienna forum

VIENNA, Austria - Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba addresses a conference on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in Vienna on May 2 and repeated a call for the abolition of nuclear weapons, quoting words of the slain Nagasaki Mayor Itcho Ito.

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N. Korean delegate rules out unilateral abandonment of nukes

BEIJING, China - North Korea's chief nuclear negotiator Kim Kye Gwan (C) leaves after talks with South Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Chun Young Woo in Beijing on Nov. 30, saying Pyongyang will not unilaterally abandon its nuclear programs.

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Nukes passage in Japan seas tolerable in emergency: Kyuma

TOKYO, Japan - Defense Agency Director General Fumio Kyuma speaks in reply to an opposition question at a House of Representatives Security Committee session on Nov. 24. He said the passage of a nuclear-armed U.S. military ship in Japanese territorial waters would be tolerable in the event of an emergency.

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Abe says he cannot suppress debate on nukes outside party, gov't

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks at a meeting of newspaper editors held in Tokyo on Oct. 27. He said that he cannot ''suppress'' discussions on whether Japan should develop nuclear weapons, although he has no plans to hold such discussions within the government or the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.

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Japan, U.S., S. Korea ministers meet in Seoul over N. Korea nukes

SEOUL, South Korea - (From L to R) Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Ban Ki Moon shake hands prior to their talks on the North Korean nuclear issue in Seoul on Oct. 19.

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Pro-Pyongyang group rejects letter on nukes from pro-Seoul group

TOKYO, Japan - Han Jae Un, vice president of the pro-Seoul Korean Residents Union in Japan, throws a letter protesting North Korea's claimed nuclear test, at the headquarters of the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) in Tokyo on Oct. 18 after Chongryon rejected receiving the letter.

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Iranian vice president critical of U.N. resolution on nukes

TOKYO, Japan - Visiting Iranian Vice President Esfandyar Rahim Mashaee speaks during an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on Aug. 1. Mashaee suggested that following the U.N. Security Council resolution calling on Iran to suspend all uranium enrichment-related and reprocessing activities by Aug. 31, Iran may give up considering the incentives package presented by six major nations.

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Koizumi, Harper agree to cooperate on terrorism, N. Korea nukes

OTTAWA, Canada - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper speaks at a news conference in Ottawa on June 28 after talks with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.

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Koizumi, Harper agree to cooperate on terrorism, N. Korea nukes

OTTAWA, Canada - Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (2nd from L) sits for talks with Canadian Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Ottawa on June 28.

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Koizumi, Harper agree to cooperate on terrorism, N. Korea nukes

OTTAWA, Canada - Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi speaks at a news conference in Ottawa on June 28 after talks with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

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Koizumi, Harper agree to cooperate on terrorism, N. Korea nukes

OTTAWA, Canada - Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (L) and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper holds a joint news conference in Ottawa on June 28 after their talks.

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Koizumi, Harper agree to cooperate on terrorism, N. Korea nukes

OTTAWA, Canada - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper (2nd from R) sits for talks with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in Ottawa on June 28.

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Students hope to stop India, Pakistan nukes with play

TOKYO, Japan - Students of the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies perform ''Hadashi no Gen'' in Urdu at the university on Oct. 26. The students have been performing the anti-nuclear drama, which depicts a boy who survived the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, in a bid to encourage people in India and Pakistan to urge their governments to abandon nuclear arms.

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Machimura, Rice agree to seek other options over N. Korea nukes

WASHINGTON, United States - Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura (L) and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice shake hands at the State Department in Washington on May 2 prior to their talks.

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N. Korea suspends nuke talks, says it produced nukes

BEIJING, China - Armed policemen stand on alert outside the North Korean Embassy in Beijing on Feb. 10. North Korea said earlier in the day that it has suspended its participation in the six-nation talks on its nuclear ambitions for an indefinite period to cope with perceived ''hostile'' U.S. policy toward the country, and declared it has produced nuclear weapons for self-defense.

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N. Korea to continue producing nukes, U.N. adviser says

BEIJING, China - Maurice Strong, U.N. undersecretary general and special adviser to Secretary General Kofi Annan, speaks to reporters May 22 at Beijing International Airport after returning from a four-day mission to North Korea.

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(3)6-way talks on N. Korean nukes begin in Beijing

BEIJING, China - North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan attends the second round of six-nation talks on North Korea's nuclear weapons program at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on Feb. 25. (Pool photo)

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(1)6-way talks on N. Korean nukes begin in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Senior diplomats from six countries -- (from L to R) U.S. Undersecretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs James Kelly, South Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Lee Soo Hyuck, North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Mitoji Yabunaka, director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Losyukov -- pose for a photo at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on Feb. 25 before their talks on North Korea's nuclear weapons program. (Pool photo)

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(4)6-way talks on N. Korean nukes begin in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Mitoji Yabunaka (R), director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, speaks during the second round of six-nation talks on North Korea's nuclear weapons program at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on Feb. 25.

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(2)6-way talks on N. Korean nukes begin in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Negotiators from the United States, Russia, China, Japan and North and South Korea gather at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on Feb. 25 to discuss North Korea's nuclear weapons program. (Pool photo)

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Japan, S. Korea, U.S. hold preparatory meeting on N. Korea nukes

SEOUL, South Korea - Mitoji Yabunaka (L), head of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, South Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Lee Soo Hyuck (C), and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs James Kelly chat in Seoul on Feb. 23 before starting preparatory talks for six-way talks on North Korea's nuclear program scheduled to begin Feb. 25 in Beijing.

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6-party talks on N. Korea nukes may last 4 or 5 days: Russia

BEIJING, China - Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Losyukov arrives in Beijing on Feb. 23 to attend six-country talks in the Chinese capital Feb. 25 on the North Korean nuclear program. Before leaving Moscow, Losyukov was quoted as saying the talks may last four to five days, rather than the two to three widely expected.

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World NGOs, lawmakers urge abolition of nukes

NAGASAKI, Japan - Participants in the second world meeting for abolishing nuclear weapons sing on the opening day of the three-day meeting in Nagasaki on Nov. 22. Some 2,500 people attended, including atomic bomb victims from Hiroshima and Nagasaki and officials from nongovernmental organizations and lawmakers from the United States, Britain and eight other countries.

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U.S., S. Korea warn North against using WMD, nukes

SEOUL, South Korea - U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld (L) and South Korean Defense Minister Cho Young Kil hold a news conference after their talks in Seoul on Nov. 17. The two called on North Korea to halt its development of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and warned that their use would have ''the gravest consequences.''

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(2)Koizumi, Roh agree to seek early 6-way talks on N. Korea nukes

NUSA DUA, Indonesia - South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun (L) talks with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in Bali, Indonesia, on Oct. 8. They agreed to seek an early resumption of six-way talks on the North Korean nuclear issue.