US rattles sabre at North Korea
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Choose between nuclear weapons and a future The US has warned North Korea that it can have nuclear weapons or it can have a future - "but it cannot have them both", the BBC reports.â¦
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The US says it is not ready to engage broadly with North Korea despite warmer relations recently.
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The US says will not accept a nuclear-armed North Korea after Pyongyang announces test plans.
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The United States dismissed as inappropriate North Korea's unusually strong personal attacks on President George W. Bush, but remained confident Pyongyang would attend talks to resolve the nuclear crisis in the Korean peninsula.
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The United States on Thursday played  down an earlier warning to North Korea over its plans for a  nuclear test, saying it was not threatening Pyongyang with  "lethal" action.
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Analysis: More tough talk, another provocation. What's behind Pyongyang's threat to test a nuclear weapon?
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North Korean and US officials met this week to discuss the nuclear standoff on the Korean Peninsula. It appears they came no closer to resuming multilateral
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The United States showed some new flexibility in recent talks with North Korea on the nuclear issue but Pyongyang was unimpressed and is resisting participation in a new round of formal six-party negotiations, U.S. officials and experts said on Friday.
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Bluffs and bluster, then capitulation and compromise. North Korea has decades of experience dancing a diplomatic tango with its allies and enemies to get what it wants &#151; and leaving the rest of the world guessing as to the real intent of the isolated communist regime.
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North Korea lashed out today at US President George Bush for turning âa peaceful world into a pandemonium unprecedented in history,â and reaffirmed the communist nation wonât attend working meetings ahead of planned nuclear disarmament talks.
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North Korea lashed the United States on Friday for conducting an arms race and, far from announcing plans to dismantle its nuclear weapons program, warned that it would "bolster its deterrent for self-defence".
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SEOUL, OCTOBER 26: US secretary of State Colin Powell on Tuesday sought to fend off complaints from key partners in the effort to end North Koreaâs nuclear programs that the Bush administration has not been sufficiently creative or willing to compromise
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WASHINGTON: The United States said on Tuesday a blast in North Korea last week that stirred fears of a nuclear explosion might have been demolition work for a power project, as Pyongyang has asserted.
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BEIJING -- North Korea demanded a bilateral dialogue with the United States yesterday, a day after it declared itself a nuclear power, but the Bush administration quickly rejected the demand and insisted that Pyongyang return to six-party talks on its nuclear program.
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The Bush administration delivered a secret message to North Korea yesterday warning it to back down from a promised nuclear test, and it said publicly that the United States would not live with a nuclear-armed Pyongyang government.
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North Korea lashed the United States on Friday for conducting an arms race and, far from announcing plans to dismantle its nuclear weapons program, warned that it would "bolster its deterrent for self-defence."
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The United States demanded Tuesday that North Korea come clean about its highly enriched uranium program despite indications that US intelligence overstated Pyongyang's efforts to pursue such a program.