S. Korea plays down uranium enrichment test
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SEOUL, South Korea - Denying it has any nuclear weapons ambitions, South Korea insisted yesterday that a one-time uranium enrichment test by its scientists will not derail US-led efforts to dismantle rival North Korea&#39;s nuclear programs.
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North Korea faced stern warnings from its neighbors Wednesday against carrying out an unprecedented nuclear test, but insisted such a move wouldn't be meant as a provocation. A top South Korean security official said there was no sign a test was imminent.
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VIENNA, Austria  - South Korean nuclear experiments revealed earlier this year produced minute amounts of plutonium and near-weapons grade uranium but there was no evidence linking them to an attempt to make nuclear arms, the UN atomic watchdog agency said Thursday.
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South Korean Foreign Minister Song Min-Soon said on Friday the nature of North Korea's uranium program remained unclear despite earlier allegations from the United States.
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South Korea Monday shrugged off North Korean criticism of the South's experiments with nuclear materials as familiar posturing that would not rule out the mercurial communist North's return to atomic arms talks.
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North Korea rules out further nuclear talks unless South Korea's own nuclear tests are "fully probed".
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North Korea's declaration that it  possesses nuclear weapons does not make it a nuclear weapons  state, South Korea's unification minister said on Monday.
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South Korea has admitted that government scientists enriched uranium four years ago to a level that several Vienna diplomats said was almost pure enough for an atomic bomb, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Thursday.
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South Korea admitted that a group of its nuclear scientists secretly produced a small amount of near-weapons grade uranium.
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The South Korean government says its scientists were not trying to build a nuclear bomb when they enriched a small amount of uranium four years ago.
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SEOUL/VIENNA  - South Korea has no nuclear weapons  program or capability and an unsanctioned uranium enrichment  experiment four years ago was a by-product of tests to separate  materials using a laser, the government said on Friday.
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South Korea Monday shrugged off North  Korean criticism of the South's experiments with nuclear  materials as familiar posturing that would not rule out the  mercurial communist North's return to atomic arms talks.
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North Korea has shown no signs of  shutting down its main nuclear reactor and the source of its  weapons-grade plutonium since last month&#39;s deal calling for it  to be closed, South Korea&#39;s foreign minister said on Wednesday.
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Officials in South Korea continued Friday to try to assure the world that the nation had no nuclear arms program, with its top nuclear researcher saying government scientists
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The United States on Thursday played  down an earlier warning to North Korea over its plans for a  nuclear test, saying it was not threatening Pyongyang with  "lethal" action.
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South Korea said on Wednesday it was gravely concerned over North Korea's plans to test a nuclear bomb, with the United States saying the move would be "an unacceptable threat" to world peace.
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South Korea has no nuclear weapons program or capability and an unsanctioned uranium enrichment experiment four years ago was a by-product of tests