UN to pressure N Korea over test
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The UN Security Council look set to agree a statement calling on North Korea to call off a threatened nuclear test.
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North Korea will feel compelled to announce plans for another nuclear test if a financial dispute with Washington is not resolved, a source said on Wednesday, a sign of Pyongyang's impatience with a lack of progress in talks.
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The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Saturday to impose limited sanctions on North Korea for its recent missile tests, and demanded that the reclusive communist nation suspend its ballistic missile program. North Korea immediately rejected the resolution and vowed to launch more missiles.
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The UN nuclear watchdog says it will travel to North Korea next week to discuss shutting the Yongbyon reactor.
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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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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Thursday if North Korea successfully tests a nuclear weapon, it will show weakness on the part of the international community.
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A team of UN inspectors travelled Thursday to North Korea&#39;s key atomic reactor to assess the size of the task they will face in monitoring its shutdown under a nuclear disarmament deal.
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Japan will demand a clear explanation from North Korea this weekend on whether it is preparing to test-fire a ballistic missile, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda said Friday.
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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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North Korea's two-year-old nuclear crisis has taxed the world's patience, the chief United Nations nuclear regulator said on Wednesday, urging communist Pyongyang to return to its disarmament treaty obligations.
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A divided UN Security Council struggled to find common ground on how to react to North Korea's plan to test a nuclear bomb, with the United States demanding a tough &quot;strategic response&quot; and China urging restraint.
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TOKYO, Oct. 3 -- North Korea on Tuesday vowed to conduct a nuclear test to bolster its defenses against the United States, dramatically raising tensions in the region and marking the communist government's first ever unambiguous public threat to demonstrate itself as a nuclear power.
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North Korea threatened on Friday to take   "stronger physical actions" after Japan imposed punitive   measures in response to its barrage of missile tests and pushed   for international sanctions at the United Nations.
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World powers neared consensus on a statement warning North Korea against a nuclear test on Friday amid speculation that the secretive state might detonate a device deep inside an abandoned mine as early as this weekend.
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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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U.S. Ambassador John Bolton   pushed on Wednesday for a quick resolution to the race to   succeed Kofi Annan as U.N. secretary-general, a move that could   favor a South Korean front-runner.
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China has said that while it is &amp;quot;gravely concerned&amp;quot; about the North Korea situation, a draft United Nations resolution urging sanctions over the regime&#039;s missile tests was an &amp;quot;overreaction.&amp;quot;