US says has limited N Korean missile sales
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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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Secretary of State Colin Powell has  rejected the notion that divisions in the Bush administration  had hindered Washington's ability to roll back North Korea's  nuclear program.
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The United States and Japan urged North Korea not to proceed with reported plans to test-fire a long-range missile that could reach the U.S. mainland, saying Saturday that a launch would be dangerous and provocative. But North Korean officials later denied such preparations, the Kyodo News agency reported, citing a South Korean official it did not identify.
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The United States will not live with a nuclear-armed North Korea, assistant secretary of State Chris Hill said on Wednesday.
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The United States will not accept North Korean demands as &quot;conditions&quot; for the resumption of stalled talks on resolving the Korean nuclear deadlock but Pyongyang is free to raise them if it returns to the table, US Secretary of State Colin Powell said.
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North Korea fired up to two short-range missiles off its west coast on Thursday, said U.S. and South Korean officials, prompting quick U.S. criticism of Pyongyang over the second such launch in as many weeks.
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North Korea fired just one, not several, short-range missile off its east coast on Friday and may follow up with the launch of another from its west, South Korea's Yonhap news agency quoted intelligence sources as saying on Saturday.
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North Korea's recent tests of short-range missiles were successful launches of an advanced weapon that can be fired at little notice to strike targets in South Korea, the commander of U.S. Forces in South Korea said on Monday.
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The United States is moving to impose sanctions on North Korea for test-launching a series of missiles in July, a senior South Korean official said Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration is willing to hold limited face-to-face talks with North Korea and will continue to help feed the country, but will not sweeten a proposed trade of economic concessions for a halt in development of nuclear weapons, the US ambassador to South Korea said yesterday.
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The United States expects North Korea to maintain a freeze on missile tests, President Bush&#039;s spokesman said Sunday.
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North Korea lashed out at the United States over its plans to build a missile defense shield Tuesday but did not directly address concerns that it is preparing to test-fire a missile capable of reaching the United States.
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North Korea declared Thursday that it had produced nuclear weapons to defend itself from the U.S. and that it had suspended participation in multinational talks to halt its arms program.
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The United States insisted Friday that North Korea could disable its nuclear facilities by the end of the year, even though negotiators have been unable to get a firm commitment from Pyongyang to do so.
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WASHINGTON -- The United States fears China may be violating international bans on chemical and biological weapons and is not doing enough to curb the spread of missile technology to states such as North Korea and Iran, U S officials said yesterday.
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of striking most of Asia and parts of the United States, a Japanese newspaper says. Rodong missiles are capable of reaching any part of Japan, the paper said.
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North Korea said the United States had no  right to unilaterally set limits on Pyongyang's nuclear  activities and these "red line" limits could spark a war.