S.Korea, US End Troop Cut Talks Without Agreement
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South Korea and the United States closed a round of defense talks in Seoul on Friday aimed at scheduling a reduction of US troops on the Korean peninsula without agreeing on the timeline of the realignment.
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: Talks between Japan and North Korea aimed at resolving a dispute over Japanese nationals abducted by the North decades ago ended Sunday without progress, Japanese officials said.
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North Korea Saturday dashed the South's  hope of quickly resuming bilateral talks between the two old  Cold War enemies, declaring there is no hope for progress  unless South Korea's nuclear experiments are fully  investigated.
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The United States will have to cut its military capabilities in South Korea if Seoul is not willing to bear more of the cost of keeping U.S. troops on the Korean peninsula, a senior Pentagon official said on Monday.
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The United States and Japan said they would hold higher-level talks on reducing the controversial US troop presence on southern Okinawa island amid a stalemate on reaching a deal.
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Negotiations on where to build the world&#39;s first nuclear fusion reactor ended without an agreement on either of the two sides under consideration in France and Japan, a Western diplomat said on Tuesday.
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The United States urged North Korea on  Monday to stop haggling and just close a deal on giving up  nuclear arms, after six-country talks snagged on Pyongyang's  demands for energy aid worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
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In a testy public exchange Friday with South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun, President Bush said the United States would formally end the Korean War only when North Korea halts its nuclear weapons program.
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U.S. and South Korean negotiators entered their final day of free trade talks Monday, what is expected to be the end of formal negotiations aimed at concluding a landmark deal by the end of March.
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US envoy Christopher Hill has denied a Japanese press report that said he had secured a deal with North Korea in which Pyongyang had agreed to shut down a nuclear reactor in exchange for energy aid.
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U.S. strategists are exploring how to implement a peace accord to officially end the 1950-53 Korean War and hope to start discussions with North Korea as soon as year end, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
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The two Koreas ended four days of talks on Friday unable to agree on anything other than to keep in touch, with the North demanding rice aid and the South refusing until its impoverished neighbor starts nuclear disarmament.
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The United States rejected North Korea's conditions for a resumption of six-party talks on scrapping its nuclear programs, a response to Pyongyang's latest demands that left the two nations in a stalemate.
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South Korea will not be able to complete the relocation of US bases in the country by 2008 as scheduled due to protests by residents and construction delays, officials said.
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The United States has hinted at delaying its planned troop reductions in South Korea following concern by the Seoul government, a news report said.
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SEOUL : South Korea&#39;s foreign minister indicated Friday that prospects had diminished for proposed six-way talks later this month to end North Korea&#39;s nuclear weapons drive.
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Efforts to bring North Korea  back to disarmament talks were in tatters on Thursday as  Pyongyang stormed out of a meeting with the South and a senior  U.S. diplomat left the region after a week of shuttle  diplomacy.