North Korea peace efforts in peril
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THE international effort to end the North Korean nuclear crisis appears at risk of unravelling, despite Foreign Minister Alexander Downer&#39;s high-profile mission to the secretive Stalinist state.
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As North Korea, South Korea, and Iran raise risks of an arms race, the global challenge to nonproliferation grows.
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: Talks between Japan and North Korea aimed at resolving a dispute over Japanese nationals abducted by the North decades ago ended Sunday without progress, Japanese officials said.
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North Korea said Monday the danger of war on the Korean peninsula is &quot;snowballing&quot; and accused the United States of destroying the basis for negotiations on Pyongyang&#39;s nuclear program.
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North Korea&#39;s chief delegate to the United Nations General Assembly says the danger of war on the Korean peninsula is &quot;snowballing&quot;.
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BEIJING -- Talks aimed at shutting down North Korea's nuclear weapons program ended yesterday with no concrete timeline and a host of difficult questions obscuring the road ahead.
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North Korea says the United States&#39; hostile policy towards Pyongyang makes it &quot;impossible&quot; to hold new talks on the standoff over its nuclear ambitions.
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There are three problems with the six-party talks on North Korea&#39;s nuclear issue. First, they risk confusing form with substance: as if merely getting North Korea around a table is success
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TOKYO : Japan is enraged at North Korea for allegedly lying about the deaths of two of its citziens the Stalinist state kidnapped, with commentators warning the deception has set back the chances of reconcilation with the outside world.
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North Korea's neighbors scrambled Wednesday to forge a common front against Pyongyang's threatened nuclear test, with South Korea warning of a regional atomic arms race that could upend the regional balance of power.
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North Korea has relied on its trademark brinksmanship strategy in international negotiations on its nuclear program, often lacing its speeches with threats, accusations and unreasonable demands.
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BEIJING/KUALA LUMPUR  - Envoys in Beijing on Wednesday worked towards a deal to press North Korea to disable nuclear facilities by the end of the year, while the U.N. atomic watchdog confirmed a key atomic complex was now locked.
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Prospects for an initial agreement on ending North Korea's nuclear arms program were clouded on Sunday as talks entered a fourth day without an accord on how to compensate Pyongyang for moving to disarm.
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Six-way talks on ending North Korea's  nuclear program resumed on Saturday with a dim promise of  progress, but envoys remained cautious after many false dawns  and at least one stumbling block across their path.
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North Korea says the danger of war on the Korean peninsula is &#39;snowballing&#39;, and has accused the United States of destroying the basis for talks on Pyongyang&#39;s nuclear program.
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Having coaxed North Korea to shut an aged reactor, disarmament talks resuming this week face the harder task of persuading Pyongyang to loosen its grip on broader atomic ambitions it has long held vital to survival.
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Comment is free: Jonathan Steele: Peace failure in the scarcely reported north-south conflict sends terrible signal.