SKorea says US &amp; NKorea relations key to nuclear standoff
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A top South Korean official says the normalisation of relations between the United States and North Korea is key to resolving the North&#39;s nuclear standoff.
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WASHINGTON : Diplomatic efforts are underway to hold a preparatory meeting for the six-party talks aimed at ending the nuclear crisis in the Korean peninsula, the US State Department said.
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WASHINGTON : The United States said it had no objection to North Korea wanting to resume six-party talks on ending the Korean nuclear crisis after the November 2 US presidential elections.
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North Korean and US officials met this week to discuss the nuclear standoff on the Korean Peninsula. It appears they came no closer to resuming multilateral talks on ending Pyongyang&#39;s nuclear weapons programs.
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President Bush said Thursday that the United States is seeking a diplomatic solution to the nuclear standoff with North Korea, but cautioned that diplomacy will take time.
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The United States on Monday dismissed as inappropriate North Korea&#39;s unusually strong personal attacks on President George W. Bush, but remained confident Pyongyang would attend talks to resolve the nuclear crisis in the Korean peninsula.
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The US is ready to end a row with North Korea over a Macau bank which threatened nuclear talks, officials say.
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The United States and South Korea agreed on Wednesday to keep pushing North Korea to join some form of talks on Pyongyang&#39;s nuclear programs before the end of the year, Yonhap news agency reported.
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North Korea agreed in weekend talks with  the United States to fully account for and disable its nuclear  programs by the end of this year, negotiators said on Sunday.
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The United States and North Korea signed a memorandum during talks last month by which Pyongyang would begin closing a nuclear reactor while the U.S. starts providing energy assistance, a major Japanese newspaper reported Thursday.
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The top American negotiator with North Korea said that the country agreed to account to international monitors for all of its nuclear programs.
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North Korea threatened on Saturday to  double the size of its nuclear deterrent if the United States  did not drop what Pyongyang sees as a confrontational policy  aimed at unseating the communist leadership.
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NEW YORK - The United States and North Korea were set to begin groundbreaking talks Monday as a first step toward normalizing ties and cementing Pyongyang's commitment to scrapping its nuclear arms program.
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North Korea's military calls for direct talks with the US, to discuss security on the Korean peninsula.
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North Korea's military calls for direct talks with the US to discuss security on the Korean peninsula.
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The chief nuclear negotiators of North Korea and the United States are planning to visit each other's capital soon, a diplomatic source in Seoul was quoted as saying in a South Korean news report on Thursday.
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LONDON - South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun said on Friday the nuclear standoff with North Korea must be resolved peacefully, despite hawks in the United States pushing for a more hardline approach.