North Korea says has funds, awaits U.N. team
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North Korea said on Monday it would start implementing a nuclear disarmament deal struck in February and awaits a visit by U.N. inspectors now that a dispute over its funds frozen at a Macau bank had been resolved.
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North Korea will allow a team of U.N.  nuclear watchdog officials to visit the Yongbyon reactor it has  agreed to shut down under a disarmament-for-aid deal, the  International Atomic Energy Agency said on Wednesday.
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The head of a U.N. nuclear watchdog delegation said on Friday it was "satisfied" with a tour of a North Korean reactor complex that the secretive state has promised to scrap under an aid-for-disarmament deal, Kyodo news agency said.
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Most of the North Korean funds frozen in a Macau bank have been transferred, South Korean and Japanese news agencies said on Thursday, raising the prospect of an end to the deadlock stalling Pyongyang's nuclear disarmament.
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The United States will hold North Korea to its pledge to account for its nuclear programs, the State Department said on Wednesday as Pyongyang remained silent after failing to meet a year-end deadline to give a full accounting of its nuclear arms program.
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The U.N. nuclear watchdog and North Korea have an understanding on how to monitor the shutdown and sealing of the North's nuclear reactor, but the closure date was up to the six-party talks, a U.N. official said on Saturday.
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A financial dispute that has held up North Korea's pledge to shut down its nuclear reactor could be nearing a breakthrough after a news report that the long-awaited transfer of frozen North Korean funds will start Thursday
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U.N. inspectors plan to return to North Korea in about a week to help the communist nation dismantle its nuclear program and re-establish a presence that ended when they were expelled five years ago, diplomats said Sunday.
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U.N. nuclear officials arrived in North Korea on Tuesday to negotiate terms for inspectors to monitor the shutdown of Pyongyang's nuclear reactor, its source of bomb-grade plutonium.
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A team of U.N. nuclear watchdog officials visiting North Korea headed on Thursday for the Yongbyon nuclear plant that Pyongyang has promised to mothball as part of an aid-for-disarmament deal, Kyodo news agency reported.
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North Korea will allow U.N. monitors to visit the country's key nuclear facility for two days beginning Thursday, a Japanese news agency reported.
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North Korea has invited a delegation of the United Nations nuclear watchdog to visit the country in what could be a first step towards implementing an international agreement intended to curb its nuclear program.
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The transfer of North Korean funds in a Macau bank, whose delay has stalled a nuclear disarmament deal, should be completed this week, Yonhap news agency on Wednesday quoted a senior South Korean official as saying.
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North Korea said on Saturday it will not abandon its nuclear programmes until the United States gives up what Pyongyang regards as a "hostile" policy toward it and drops financial restrictions imposed last year.
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North Korea remains committed to using six-party talks to defuse a crisis over its nuclear weapons programs, but only if certain conditions are met, a U.N. official said on Monday after visiting the reclusive state.
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North Korea will feel compelled to announce plans for another nuclear test if a financial dispute with Washington is not resolved, a source said on Wednesday, a sign of Pyongyang's impatience with a lack of progress in talks.
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North Korea pledges to boost its "war deterrent", days after missing a deadline for declaring its nuclear activities.