N.Korea eyes 2nd test if dispute not resolved
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North Korea will feel compelled to announce plans for another nuclear test if a financial dispute with Washington is not resolved, a source said on Wednesday, a sign of Pyongyang's impatience with a lack of progress in talks.
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North Korea set three conditions Friday to be met before it would consider returning to six-party talks on its nuclear programs.
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North Korea may conduct another nuclear test or engage in saber rattling next week when it sits down at six-country talks on ending its nuclear weapons programme, South Korea's defense minister warned on Friday.
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South Korea says it wants to see a peaceful solution to the controversy over North Korea's programme.
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SEOUL -- Tensions mounted over North Korea's threat to test its first atomic bomb, with shots ringing out yesterday along the border with South Korea and with Japan warning of harsh sanctions if Pyongyang goes nuclear.
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North Korea's second ranking leader was scheduled to meet with China's two most powerful men as Beijing persisted in its efforts to revive stalled talks on the nuclear standoff.
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North Korea may be preparing for another   missile test, Yonhap news reported on Sunday, after the   secretive state defied international warnings and launched   seven missiles in early July.
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Having failed to stop North Korea testing a bomb, Beijing now has to make the diplomatic process produce results
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North Korea said on Tuesday it would conduct its first nuclear test, and Washington warned it would respond to such an "unacceptable threat" to world peace.
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North Korea is prepared to return to six-country talks on its nuclear weapons program at any time now that it has "gained a defensive position" with a nuclear test, a senior envoy of the communist state said on Tuesday.
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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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North Korea is committed to joining another round of six-party talks on its nuclear crisis but is waiting to see the post-election mood of the United States, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said on Thursday.
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North Korea has a few more cards to play if it wants to turn up the tension generated by a series of missile tests. It could fire more missiles, threaten to stage a nuclear test, stage troop exercises near the border with South Korea or send up fighter jets in an attempt to harass U.S. spy planes.
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Military officers from North and South Korea engaged in a shoving match and a war of words Thursday over their disputed sea border, on the second day of talks dominated by the thorny issue.
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North Korea is prepared to return to six-country talks on its nuclear weapons program at any time now that it has "completed defensive steps" with a nuclear test, a senior envoy of the communist state said on Tuesday.
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Japan and North Korea held a second day of talks Sunday in a dispute over Japanese nationals abducted by the North decades ago. Japan seized the occasion to express concern North Korea might be planning a missile test, a newspaper reported.
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The number two in the North Korean leadership, Kim Yong Nam, has left for China to meet President Hu Jintao and other leaders. The dispute over North Korea&#39;s nuclear programme is likely to figure high on the agenda at the talks.