Australian Minister to Visit North Korea
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Australia's foreign minister said en route to North Korea on Tuesday that he would dangle the prospect of more economic aid for the impoverished country if it agrees to stop building nuclear weapons.
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UN nuclear inspectors will visit North Korea next week to discuss shutting down its Yongbyon reactor.
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South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun was due to meet Prime Minister Tony Blair for talks likely to be dominated by the nuclear ambitions of Seoul's reclusive northern neighbour.
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British junior foreign office minister  Bill Rammell will go to North Korea next month in the  highest-level visit to the isolated Communist state by a UK  official, London said on Tuesday.
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Australia is in Afghanistan for the "long haul," Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said on a surprise visit Saturday to the country, which is battling an intensifying insurgency led by Taliban extremists.
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New Australian PM reportedly plans to use armed vessel to track Japanese whalers
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Diplomatic efforts are underway to persuade North Korea to continue participating in the dialogue on its nuclear-weapons programs, after Pyongyang indicated its reluctance to attend further negotiations. Both China and Australia&#39;s foreign minister are ...
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South Korean Foreign Minister Ban  Ki-Moon, who is poised to become the next head of the United  Nations, said he may visit North Korea in his new role to help  resolve a standoff over its nuclear ambitions.
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PRIME Minister John Howard will travel to Indonesia on Tuesday for the inauguration of Indonesia&#39;s newly elected President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
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The British government has announced plans to send a top Foreign Office representative to North Korea in September. Junior Minister for East Asia Bill Rammell will become the first British minister to visit
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North Korea's second-most senior leader  toured a shiny new science park in Beijing Monday, a first stop  on visit aimed at finding ways to help the North's moribund  economy as much as jump-starting stalled nuclear talks.
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Experts from America, Russia and China will travel to North Korea later this month to study how the country's nuclear facilities can be shut down, a US official says.
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Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi is to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-il later on Tuesday, a ministry spokesman said, as uncertainty continued over when Pyongyang may shut its nuclear reactor.
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US Vice President Dick Cheney will visit Japan and Australia this week to discuss their roles in Iraq and Afghanistan and common challenges like China's rise and North Korea's nuclear programs, officials said.
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North Korea will close its embassy in Australia because it can no longer afford it, an official said Tuesday.
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Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made  a lightning visit to East Timor on Friday to pledge support  after an assassination attempt on the country's president, Jose  Ramos-Horta.
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A two-day international summit has opened in Australia aimed at combating the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Government ministers and diplomats from across the Asia-Pacific region are meeting to discuss