In a Press Release dated 20 September, NATO denounced a UN treaty banning nuclear weapons as unrealistic and claimed that it risked undermining the international response to North Korea's nuclear arms programme.
A retired Soviet officer who prevented a possible nuclear war between the US/NATO and the Soviet Union in the 1980s quietly passed away on the 19 May in his home in Fryazino, near Moscow. He was 77. His death is only now being more widely reported.
On the 5 September 2017, NATO's new southern ‘information hub’ was opened at the Allied Joint Forces Command near Naples, Italy.
When the EU and NATO agreed to enhance their cooperation at the Warsaw Summit in 2016, countering hybrid threats was identified as one of the most prominent fields of cooperation.
In a statement on 3 September, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg condemned the sixth nuclear test conducted by North Korea.
In a Ukrainian TV interview on August 26, Kurt Volker, the US special envoy for efforts to end the conflict in Ukraine, said that the country is not yet ready to join NATO.
