North Korea slams U.S. ahead of nuclear deadline
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North Korea, facing a looming deadline in a nuclear disarmament deal, blamed the United States on Monday for hurting the prospects for peace on the Korean peninsula with plans to attack the reclusive state.
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North Korea has accused the United States of attempting to scupper a recent deal to lift financial sanctions on the communist state within a month, a report said.
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The United States accused North Korea  Tuesday of miscalculation by refusing to resume talks on its  nuclear programs before the U.S. presidential election while  China renewed a diplomatic drive to end the stalemate.
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The United States urged reclusive North Korea to get out of the "nuclear business" on Thursday and said it will not accept Pyongyang as a nuclear power.
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North Korea will shut down its controversial Yongbyon reactor very soon, probably within three weeks, the top U.S. nuclear envoy said in Tokyo on Saturday.
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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 there.
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An increasingly isolated North Korea said on Tuesday it would conduct its first-ever nuclear test, blaming a U.S. "threat of nuclear war and sanctions" for forcing its hand.
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North Korea has said it wants to get promised shipments of oil before shutting down its Yongbyon nuclear reactor, delaying again a key obligation under a February nuclear agreement, U.S. officials said on Monday.
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Japan pressed on with efforts on Thursday to secure a U.N. condemnation of North Korea's nuclear test threat after Washington, in its starkest warning so far, said it would not live with a nuclear-armed Pyongyang.
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The United States warned North Korea Monday of potential economic and political fallout after the Stalinist state failed to meet a year-end deadline to come clean on its nuclear activity.
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North Korea said on Friday it had already accounted for its nuclear arms program as required under an international disarmament deal -- an assertion quickly rejected by the United States, which urged Pyongyang to produce a declaration soon.
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North Korea set three conditions Friday  to be met before it would consider returning to six-party talks  on its nuclear programs.
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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's failure to meet a deadline to declare its nuclear activities needs to be confronted with patience and perseverance, a senior U.S. envoy said on Monday.
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The United States in its starkest warning so far said on Wednesday it would not live with a nuclear-armed North Korea, while Japan and other neighbors hardened their responses after the reclusive state announced it planned a nuclear test.
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North Korea has warned Japan that it will treat economic sanctions as a &quot;declaration of war&quot; and threatens to try to exclude Tokyo from six-party talks on Pyongyang&#39;s nuclear arms programs.
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North Korea warned Japan on Wednesday  that it would treat economic sanctions as a "declaration of  war" and threatened to try to exclude Tokyo from six-party  talks on Pyongyang's nuclear arms programs.