U.S. calls on North Korea to account for uranium
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The United States expects North Korea to fully account for its program to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons as a part of the deal it struck to start scrapping its atomic arms, a senior official said on Tuesday.
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The United States urged reclusive North Korea to get out of the "nuclear business" on Thursday after listing luxury goods such as cognac, cigars and jet skis it seeks to keep out of the country under U.N. trade sanctions.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell sought South Korea's support on Tuesday for a U.S. hard line on North Korea after China said Washington must be more flexible to entice the reclusive state back to nuclear arms talks.
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North Korea must fully disclose its efforts to produce highly enriched uranium, the chief U.S. negotiator said.
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By acknowledging doubts about what it knows of North Korea's uranium enrichment program, the United States aims to set the record straight and ease resolution of an issue that has been a key obstacle to a nuclear agreement since 2002, U.S. officials and experts say.
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North Korea has turned the enriched uranium from 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods into weapons to serve as a deterrent against a possible nuclear strike by the United States, a North Korean minister said Monday.
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North Korea's nuclear envoy demanded Saturday that his country be given power-generating reactors as a reward for eventually dismantling its own atomic programs.
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The United States urged reclusive North Korea on Thursday to get out of the nuclear business and rejoin a treaty that aims to curb the spread of nuclear weapons.
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The United States will not sweeten its aid-for-disarmament offer to North Korea in a bid to end the Stalinist state's nuclear weapons drive, US Secretary of State Colin Powell said.
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North Korea offered to meet a U.S. request that it declare and disable its nuclear programs by the end of the year, South Korea said Wednesday, indicating its will to comply with a disarmament pledge after shutting down its sole operating reactor.
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A top South Korean official on Sunday urged the United States to engage diplomatically with North Korea to resolve a dispute over the North's nuclear weapons program, comparing such a policy to President Nixon's decision to recognize China in the 1970s.
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U.S. Ambassador John Bolton urged the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday to respond to North Korea's threat to conduct a nuclear test, saying it would be a grave threat to international peace and security.
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The international community needs to offer incentives to North Korea rather than just apply pressure for it to return to six-party talks aimed at dismantling its nuclear program, the head of the U.N. nuclear agency said on Friday.
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The US secretary of state is to urge China to play a greater role in the crisis over North Korea's nuclear plans.
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The top U.S. point man with North   Korea will urge Asian powers to end arms-related trade with   Pyongyang as ordered by the U.N. on a tour of the region next   week, U.S. officials say.
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The United States should use  incentives to entice North Korea to scrap its nuclear programs,  including a "buyout" pegging aid to the amount of plutonium  Pyongyang surrenders, a panel of experts said.
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell pressed ChiThe United States has praisedChina's role to date, but US officials say Washington is looking for Beijing to exert more pressure on Pyongyangna to convince North Korea to return to stalled talks on its nuclear weapons programs and urged Beijing to take up a Taiwanese offer for dialogue.