South Korea and Japan urge Pyongyang to resume nuclear talks
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Leaders of Japan and South Korea have jointly urged North Korea to return to talks aimed at ending its nuclear weapons program. They agreed that imposing economic sanctions now on Pyongyang would thwart such efforts.
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Military authorities in North and South Korea have agreed to resume talks for the first time in five months, officials at the defense ministry said here.
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North Korea declined a request to resume talks aimed at persuading the communist nation to abandon its nuclear weapons program, Japan&#39;s government spokesman Hiroyuki Hosoda said.
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell has ended his tour of East Asia by urging North Korea to resume nuclear talks. Speaking in Seoul, Mr Powell said Pyongyang&#39;s ongoing nuclear programme was preventing the US from helping ordinary North Korean people.
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North and South Korea are restoring ties during talks this week following the communist country's pledge to shut down its nuclear reactor, paving the way for restoration of aid to the North and reunions for families split by the divided peninsula.
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SEOUL South Korean officials expressed hope Thursday that North Korea would return to six-party talks designed to resolve the country&#39;s nuclear weapons issues.
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Secretary of State Colin L. Powell joined with Japanese leaders today to appeal again to North Korea to resume the stalled negotiations over the future of its nuclear
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IBUSUKI, Japan  - Leaders of Japan and South Korea  jointly urged North Korea on Friday to return to talks aimed at  ending its nuclear weapons program and agreed imposing economic  sanctions now on Pyongyang would thwart such efforts.
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Countries involved in six-way talks on  North Korea's nuclear program have urged Pyongyang to return to  the table sooner rather than later but have not proposed  specific dates, a senior government official said on Thursday.
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The United States and Japan demanded  real progress when talks on scrapping North Korea's nuclear  arms resume this week, warning Pyongyang on Sunday that  sanctions and isolation were its only alternative.
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The foreign ministers of South Korea, China and Japan called Sunday for flexibility to end a complex financial dispute blocking North Korea&#39;s nuclear disarmament.
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The U.S. and Japan on Tuesday called on China to press its ally North Korea for concessions over its nuclear and missile programs, as a delegation from the North arrived in Beijing amid urgent diplomatic exchanges.
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Russia called on North Korea to resume talks on abandoning its nuclear weapons program, at the same time as it signed a multi-billion-dollar package of trade and investment deals strengthening ties with South Korea.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and his South Korean counterpart President Roh Moo Hyun have reiterated calls for curbing North Korea&#39;s nuclear weapons drive and continuing the six-nation talks aimed at defusing the Korean nuclear crisis.
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South Korea pressed communist North Korea to redouble its reconciliation efforts Tuesday, as the estranged neighbors opened high-level talks amid rifts over the North's nuclear program and the South's delayed rice shipments.
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SEOGWIPO, South Korea  - The foreign ministers of South Korea, Japan and China meet on Sunday to try to smooth often prickly ties and help resolve the impasse over the nuclear weapons plans of their neighbor, North Korea.
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North and South Korea said on Wednesday they had agreed to resume ministerial talks, a day after a breakthrough energy-for-arms deal at six-party talks on the North's nuclear programs in Beijing.