N.Korea is nuclear blackmailer, says U.S. general
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North Korea was building nuclear weapons for political blackmail, the head of U.S. forces in South Korea said on Wednesday, adding he was not overly worried about the military threat they posed.
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South Korea's chief nuclear envoy on Monday called on North Korea to come clean about its suspected program to enrich uranium for weapons, which has been a sticking point in an international disarmament deal.
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North Korea lashed the United States on  Friday for conducting an arms race and, far from announcing  plans to dismantle its nuclear weapons program, warned that it  would &quot;bolster its deterrent for self-defence.&quot;
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North Korea must fully disclose its efforts to produce highly enriched uranium, the chief U.S. negotiator said.
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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.
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North Korea, facing a looming deadline in a nuclear disarmament deal, blamed the United States on Monday for hurting the prospects for peace on the Korean peninsula with plans to attack the reclusive state.
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Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said Thursday North Korea's declaration that it has nuclear arms was worrisome because of its record as a proliferator of ballistic missiles and the dictatorial nature of its government.
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North Korea has made significant progress in disabling its nuclear facility in Yongbyon but has hesitated at providing key details about the extent of its nuclear programs, including whether it has weaponized the plutonium harvested from the reactor, according to U.S. officials.
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North Korea has turned the enriched uranium from 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods into weapons to serve as a deterrent against a possible nuclear strike by the United States, a North Korean minister said Monday.
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North Korea poses a ``serious challenge&#39;&#39; to United Nations efforts to control the spread of nuclear weapons, said Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
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North Korea threatened on Saturday to double the size of its nuclear deterrent and the United States rejected its conditions for a resumption of talks
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The United States has had some  success in limiting North Korea's export of missiles by  persuading other countries not to buy them, a senior  administration official says.
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North Korea can make a nuclear warhead that can be mounted on missiles capable of hitting all of South Korea and most of Japan, U.S. nuclear experts said in a report obtained on Wednesday.
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UNITED NATIONS: The director of the UN nuclear watchdog agency said on Monday that North Korea posed a âserious challengeâ to attempts to limit nuclear weapons in the world and Iran should suspend uranium enrichment activities.
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North Korea accused the United States of applying a double standard on the Korean Peninsula and warned Wednesday of a nuclear arms race in Northeast Asia following the revelation that South Korean scientists enriched a tiny amount of uranium in 2000.
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North Korea warned it will double its nuclear deterrent force if the United States persists in challenging the North&#39;s nuclear-weapons programs.
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North Korea, which declared last week it has built nuclear weapons, has marked the birthday of supremo Kim Jong-Il with a pledge to continue bolstering arms against the United States.