The U.N. secretary general has thrown his weight behind the ongoing talks between North Korea and the U.S. over the former’s nuclear disarmament, stressing that Pyongyang must be denuclearized in an "irreversible" and "verifiable" way to prevent another Hiroshima or Nagasaki incident from happening.
![The Syria peace conference room at the conference center "Le Petit Palais" as part of the Montreux-Palace will be the location Wednesday for Geneva II peace talks. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/000_Par7769034.jpg?itok=Yf0dlkOV "The Syria peace conference room at the conference center \"Le Petit Palais\" as part of the Montreux-Palace will be the location Wednesday for Geneva II peace talks. [AFP]")
![This combination of two recent pictures made on January 9, 2014 shows (at L) Iranian president Hassan Rouhani in Tehran in a picture released by the Iranian Presidency and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/iraq/000_Par7758484.jpg?itok=NeoeWgIf "This combination of two recent pictures made on January 9, 2014 shows (at L) Iranian president Hassan Rouhani in Tehran in a picture released by the Iranian Presidency and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. [AFP]")
