N.Korea envoy eyes nuclear inspections soon
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North Korean funds that had been frozen in a Macau bank account for nearly two years will soon reach Pyongyang and that should spur inspections of the North's nuclear sites, U.S. envoy Christopher Hill said.
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A visit by the U.N. atomic watchdog to Pyongyang set for next week is on hold, a North Korean official said on Thursday, casting uncertainty over disarmament moves even as the top U.S. nuclear envoy made a surprise trip to the North.
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A top U.S. diplomat said on Friday weekend talks between the United States and North Korea may signal whether the push to end Pyongyang's nuclear programs was beginning to gather speed.
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The US envoy negotiating with North Korea says he hopes talks on its nuclear programme will start soon.
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U.N. inspectors plan to return to North Korea in about a week to help the communist nation dismantle its nuclear program and re-establish a presence that ended when they were expelled five years ago, diplomats said Sunday.
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Envoys seeking to end North Korea's nuclear arms ambitions were hopeful of forging agreement on Thursday on a deadline for crippling the North's atomic facilities and exposing its trove of nuclear secrets.
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Amid skepticism over North Korea&#39;s claim that a large explosion in its remote northern province last week was part of demolition work, international diplomats are slated to visit the blast site this Thursday.
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The chief U.S. nuclear envoy for North Korea met South Korea's top diplomat Wednesday to fine-tune strategy for efforts to push ahead with the communist country's nuclear disarmament.
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A North Korean official will visit the United States next month for talks with U.S. counterparts on resuming six-party talks aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear program, a Japanese newspaper reported on Friday.
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Joseph DeTrani, a US envoy, is visiting China, South Korea and Japan to try to make progress on resuming six-nation talks on ending North Korea&#39;s nuclear program, the US State Department said.
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The chief U.S. envoy at North Korean nuclear talks urged Kim Jong Il's government to hand over a promised list of its nuclear efforts, saying Wednesday that nuclear negotiators are working to make sure "Pyongyang lives up to its word."
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US special envoy Joseph DeTrani will visit South Korea and Japan on the nuclear issue of the Democratic People&#39;s Republic of Korea (DPRK), State Department deputy spokesman Adam Ereli said at a briefing on Tuesday.
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U.N. nuclear officials arrived in North Korea on Tuesday to negotiate terms for inspectors to monitor the shutdown of Pyongyang's nuclear reactor, its source of bomb-grade plutonium.
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Talks and fuel aid aimed at coaxing North Korea to carry out nuclear disarmament could move ahead in coming weeks, the U.S. nuclear envoy said on Sunday, welcoming Pyongyang's invitation to U.N. inspectors.
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The head of the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog will be in Seoul next week, a ministry said on Thursday, for a trip that comes as momentum is building for a shutdown of North Korea's nuclear reactor to be overseen by his agency.
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The top U.S. envoy to the North Korean nuclear talks expressed hope Wednesday that Japan and North Korea would meet on the sidelines of the six-nation negotiations to discuss normalizing their relations.
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North Korea is fully prepared to shut  down its nuclear facilities and allow inspections, a South  Korean official said in New York, where envoys from Pyongyang  and Washington are set to begin rare talks on improving ties.