White House downplays Pyongyang's threat to cut off negotiations
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The White House downplayed North Korea's threats to cut off nuclear arms talks with the United States and other countries.
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WASHINGTON A top Bush administration official says North Korea is stalling talks on its nuclear weapons program until after the November elections.
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The White House on Thursday sought to ease concern among conservatives, including at least one key aide to President Bush, that a nuclear disarmament deal with North Korea goes too easy on the communist country.
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A U.S. official, in a rare public departure from Bush administration policy, yesterday criticized the nuclear talks with North Korea, contending that Pyongyang is not serious about disarming.
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The White House tried to convince  conservatives, including a top aide, on Thursday that a  breakthrough deal with North Korea would not free Pyongyang  from a list of countries that sponsor terrorism anytime soon.
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The White House on Saturday played down a newspaper report that the Bush administration was weighing a scenario for possibly sharp cuts in U.S. troop levels in Iraq next year.
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The White House appeared to rule out lifting economic sanctions on North Korea, a move the Stalinist regime says must take place before it will consider surrendering its nuclear arms.
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North Korea threatened on Saturday to double the size of its nuclear deterrent and the United States rejected its conditions for a resumption of talks
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The United States is insisting that multiple facilities at North Korea's Yongbyon complex be shut down, American officials said on Thursday, and these demands could pose new pitfalls for the February 13 nuclear agreement.
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A top State Department official cautioned North Korea on Monday to avoid &quot;any type of provocative activity&quot; and to return to negotiations on its nuclear weapons program.
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As the United States and North Korea prepare to discuss normalizing diplomatic relations on Monday, many pitfalls threaten the process, including U.S. promises to discuss lifting sanctions and removing Pyongyang from the U.S. terrorism list.
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Pyongyang will not meet target for disabling key reactor and revealing nuclear programmes, diplomats say
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Talks to end North Korea's nuclear arms ambitions on Thursday veered away from setting a deadline for the next phase of disarmament but settled on a set of tasks the United States said could be carried out this year.
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North Korea has responded to a personal letter from President Bush, saying Pyongyang will meet its obligations under a disarmament-for-aid deal and expects the U.S. to do the same, White House officials said Friday.
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The United States must put aside speculation over whether North Korea can be trusted and work to convince Pyongyang it will be more secure without nuclear arms, South Korea's foreign minister said on Friday.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza  Rice said on Tuesday Washington would not set a deadline to  reach a deal in six-party talks on North Korea but made clear  next week's negotiations must not be held just for the sake of  talking.
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The United States urged North Korea on  Monday to stop haggling and just close a deal on giving up  nuclear arms, after six-country talks snagged on Pyongyang's  demands for energy aid worth hundreds of millions of dollars.