US, North Korea begin thaw in relations
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Landmark US-North Korea talks on normalizing relations were to get underway Monday amid questions in Washington over whether US intelligence had exaggerated Pyongyang's nuclear threat.
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South Korea and the United States opened new talks aimed at reshaping their half-century-old military alliance, moves that have sparked security jitters here.
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North Korea made clear on Saturday it  would not return to six-party talks on its nuclear programs  until President Bush assembled his new team and Washington  decided its policy toward Pyongyang.
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The two Koreas set up a meeting for Thursday to discuss resuming high-level talks, the first sign of tensions relaxing on the divided peninsula after North Korea signed a breakthrough nuclear disarmament agreement.
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The United States expects North Korea to maintain a freeze on missile tests, President Bush&#039;s spokesman said Sunday.
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US officials are cautious at reports that North Korea is ready to rejoin talks on its nuclear weapons programme.
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Christopher Hill, the chief US negotiator on North Korea, on Monday started a tour to get six-nation disarmament talks back on track after a key deadline slipped.
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The United States on Friday disputed North Korean claims that Pyongyang had handed over a list of its nuclear programs ahead of a year-end disarmament deadline. Despite the North's charges of U.S. obstruction, the State Department expressed confidence that the process was moving ahead.
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North Korea set conditions for resuming the six-nation talks on its nuclear program, including the US dropping its ``hostile policy&#39;&#39; toward the communist nation, the official Korean Central News Agency said.
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North Korea blamed the United States on  Monday for blocking six-country talks on scrapping its nuclear  programs, denying it had stalled the talks itself to await the  outcome of the U.S. presidential election.
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North Korea plans to delay resuming nuclear discussions and has told China that there is no point in continuing the talks at all, a senior US official said yesterday.
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The two Koreas will hold talks late this month aimed at improving relations, a South Korean official said Thursday, the first sign of easing tensions between the countries after the North signed a nuclear disarmament agreement.
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As part of the deal announced today the United States will begin the process of removing North Korea from its designation as a terror-sponsoring state.
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The United States and North Korea began face-to-face talks in Geneva on Saturday aimed at reaching an agreement on how to proceed with Pyongyang&#39;s denuclearisation pledge.
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Hopes rose Friday that North Korea will start its promised nuclear shutdown as UN atomic inspectors prepared to leave for Pyongyang, but the North&#39;s military said US hostility could still scupper the disarmament deal.
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North Korea is proposing holding military  talks with the United States, the official Korean Central News  Agency (KCNA) reported on Friday, less than a week before a new  round of talks on Pyongyang&#39;s nuclear arms program is due to  begin.
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The United States said it was planning more one-on-one talks with North Korea in a push to make progress in multinational negotiations aimed at dismantling North Korea's nuclear program.