Hopes on NKorea despite military warning
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Hopes rose Friday that North Korea will start its promised nuclear shutdown as UN atomic inspectors prepared to leave for Pyongyang, but the North&#39;s military said US hostility could still scupper the disarmament deal.
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North Korea isn&#39;t on the verge of test-firing a ballistic missile, Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi said, while expressing concern that the government in Pyongyang hasn&#39;t
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North Korea has successfully tested new short-range missiles and is close to making them operational, posing a threat to South Korea and Japan, a senior US defence official said.
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North Korea believes Washington has atomic weapons deployed in South Korea and it will not halt its nuclear program as long as this threat persists, Itar-Tass news agency quoted a North Korean source as saying on Thursday.
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Shortage may spur Pyongyang back to six-party nuclear talks, analysts say.
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North Korea threatened on Saturday to double the size of its nuclear deterrent if the United States did not drop what Pyongyang sees as a confrontational policy aimed at unseating the communist leadership there.
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World powers neared consensus on a statement warning North Korea against a nuclear test on Friday amid speculation the secretive state might detonate a device deep inside an abandoned mine as early as this weekend.
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The United States warned North Korea against thinking it could use worries over a possible long-range missile to force the United States into direct talks.
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Analysis: Why something like optimism hovers over the talks on Pyongyang's nukes
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North Korea is well practiced in getting some of what it wants through provocation. Bullying through a bullhorn has worked time and again for a small nation with an outsized military force and an even bigger capacity for bluster and threat.
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The United States and Japan warned North   Korea against a missile launch as some officials said Pyongyang   appeared to have finished fuelling for a test flight that could   possibly reach as far as Alaska.
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North Korea's state media warned Friday the communist nation would bolster its "war deterrent," accusing the United States of plotting a nuclear war, as the world awaited Pyongyang's explanation about its failure to meet a nuclear deadline.
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The United States and Japan warned  North Korea on Monday against a missile launch as some  officials said Pyongyang appeared to have finished fueling for  a test flight that could reach as far as Alaska.
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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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By heightening the stakes in a two-year standoff, North Korea appears to be gambling that the world will accept the idea of a nuclear nation.
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Reports out of Japan claim that there are activities in North Korea implying that the country may be preparing to launch one of its ballistic missiles.
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Britain hopes North Korea may be willing to admit international human rights monitors for the first time, a minister who visited the secretive communist state last week said Monday.