Russians 'in N Korea test talks'
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Russia says it is attempting to dissuade North Korea from carrying out its plan to test a nuclear weapon.
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Six-way talks on North Korea cannot restart this year or in the foreseeable future because of "unacceptable" U.S. conditions, Russia's Interfax news agency quoted a North Korean diplomatic source as saying on Wednesday.
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North Korea has offered Russia exclusive rights to its natural uranium deposits in exchange for open support at the six-way talks on Pyongyang's nuclear weapons, a Japanese daily said on Sunday.
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Japan's foreign minister visits Russia for talks aimed at improving ties damaged by the Kuril Islands dispute.
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Negotiators are wary over how the North Koreans will respond to talks since their first atomic blast test more than two months ago.
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Russia expects the transfer of $25 million in unfrozen North Korean funds to be completed on Monday, Russian news agencies quoted a Russian government source as saying on Friday.
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Delegates to six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear weapons program agreed to hold further talks on Tuesday, after meeting into the early hours, suggesting a deal may be in the offing.
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The six-party talks to resolve North Korea's nuclear impasse that involves the two Koreas, the US, Russia, China and Japan are currently on hold.
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Russia is optimistic about six-party  talks which convene next week in Beijing with the aim of  persuading North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons, its  envoy to the talks said on Friday.
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Russia is trying to help North Korea get access to its money held in a Macau bank, a top U.S. diplomat said in an interview released on Friday.
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Shortage may spur Pyongyang back to six-party nuclear talks, analysts say.
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A team of inspectors from the United States, China and Russia headed Wednesday to North Korea's main nuclear facilities to study how to permanently disable them so that the communist country can no longer produce atomic bombs
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Russia has accepted a U.S. request that a Russian bank help end a stalemate over frozen North Korean funds that has halted progress in the North's nuclear disarmament, a news report said Sunday.
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Russia says an Iranian missile test this week raised suspicions over its true nuclear ambitions.
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SYDNEY, Sept. 8 -- The United States, China and Russia plan to send teams of experts to North Korea next week to survey nuclear facilities, a step toward disabling the country's nuclear weapons program, U.S. officials said Friday.
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North Korea plans to seal the Yongbyon nuclear reactor in the second half of July, Russia's Interfax news agency reported on Monday, citing an unidentified North Korean diplomatic source.
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Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Alexeyev said on Tuesday the next meeting of the Six Party talks on North Korea was unlikely to take place before 2007, Interfax news agency reported.