North Korea Dismisses Powell Trip to Asia
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North Korea dismissed Secretary of State Colin Powell (website - news - bio) &#39;s Asian trip as pre-US election trickery Saturday and warned it will double its nuclear deterrent force if Washington persists in challenging the
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell ends  his tour of Asia by once again asking North Korea to resume nuclear talks.
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WASHINGTON : US Secretary of State Colin Powell left here for a three-nation tour of north Asia focused on resolving the North Korean nuclear deadlock, China and Taiwan and the presence of US troops in Japan and South Korea.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Thursday he would regret a new North Korean missile launch but it would not change the US diplomatic effort to persuade Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear ambitions.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell will  try to revive talks to scrap North Korea's nuclear programs on  a trip to Asia starting on Saturday but his chances are limited  by uncertainty over the outcome of the U.S. election.
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell has been quoted as saying there is no comparison with the secret nuclear experiments previously carried out by South Korea and ongoing atomic programmes in North Korea and Iran.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell said yesterday that the United States would not provide &quot;up-front&quot; benefits to North Korea if it agreed to dismantle its nuclear programs, rejecting
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell is about to start his visit to Japan, China and South Korea.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell on  Thursday expressed concern after reports that North Korea might  carry out a new missile test but said it would not change the  U.S. effort to persuade Pyongyang through diplomacy to abandon  its nuclear ambitions.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday there was still time to resolve a nuclear crisis with North Korea through six-party talks despite Pyongyang&#39;s refusal to resume the negotiations.
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell wraps up a three-nation Asia tour after having won vows from China and Japan to press North Korea to resume stalled talks on its nuclear weapons programs.
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell warned North Korea against carrying out any new missile tests, saying Washington would not be intimidated into changing its policy towards the Stalinist state.
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TOKYO -- Secretary of State Colin L. Powell yesterday rejected demands by North Korea of a US ''reward&quot; before the communist country would agree to resume multinational talks about its nuclear weapons programs.
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A senior North Korean official dismissed reports that the secretive country was preparing a missile launch, calling them speculation, Japan's Kyodo news agency reported on Saturday.
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North Korea's explanation that a  blast last week was demolition work for a power project rather  than a nuclear explosion squared with what Washington saw,  Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Tuesday.
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SEOUL - US Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday on US television that the United States does not believe that North Korea conducted a nuclear test this past week, French state radio reported.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell joined  South Korea Tuesday in seeking to restart talks on North  Korea's nuclear ambitions right after U.S. elections, but  Pyongyang said this was impossible.