Brown warns of further sanctions against Iran and NKoreaPrime Minister Gordon Brown warned Iran and North Korea Wednesday that they face further sanctions should they fail to comply with United Nations demands regarding their nuclear programs. "Iran and North Korea must now know that the world will be even tougher on proliferation. We are ready to consider further sanctions," the British prime minister said in a speech to the UN General Assembly. "Britain will insist in future that the onus on non-nuclear states is that, in the years ahead, it is for them to prove that they are not developing nuclear weapons," he added on the eve On the Eve (Накануне in Russian) is the third novel by famous Russian writer Ivan Turgenev, best known for his short stories and the novel Fathers and Sons. of a UN Security Council summit on nuclear proliferation Nuclear proliferation is a term now used to describe the spread of nuclear weapons, fissile material, and weapons-applicable nuclear technology and information, to nations which are not recognized as "nuclear weapon States" by the which will be chaired by US President Barack Obama. Brown said Thursday's council summit was "vital as we move forwards towards next year's global nuclear security summit in April and the (Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) officially Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons International agreement intended to prevent the spread of nuclear technology. It was signed by the U.S. ) review conference in May." Iran has been subjected to three rounds of UN sanctions for failing to comply with UN resolutions demanding that it halt its uranium enrichment program which the West sees as a cover for acquiring nuclear arms. Tehran insists that its nuclear program is solely geared toward electricity generation. Pyongyang is also facing UN sanctions and is required to dismantle its nuclear weapons program. North Korea quit six-party talks The six-party talks aim to find a peaceful resolution to the security concerns as a result of the North Korean nuclear weapons program. There has been a series of meetings with six participating states: the People's Republic of China; the Republic of Korea (South Korea); the with China, Japan, Russia, South Korea and the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. in April in protest at UN censure of a rocket launch A rocket launch is the first phase of the flight of a rocket. For orbital spaceflights, or for launches into interplanetary space, rockets are launched from a launch pad, which is usually a fixed location on the ground but may also be on a floating platform such as the San Marco . The hardline communist state also carried out a second nuclear test in May. And it recently said it had reached the final stages of enriching uranium and was also building more plutonium-based atomic weapons. Brown meanwhile said London would offer "nuclear power, civil nuclear power, to non-nuclear states, who are ready to renounce any plans for nuclear weapons." Britain was also ready, he added, to "sponsor a uranium bank outside these countries to help them access civil nuclear power and to launch a new nuclear center of excellence to help develop an economic low-carbon proliferation-resistant nuclear fuel cycle Nuclear fuel cycle The nuclear fuel cycle typically involves the following steps: (1) finding and mining the uranium ore; (2) refining the uranium from other elements; (3) enriching the uranium-235 content to 3–5%; (4) fabricating fuel elements; (5) ." 
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