North Korea wants direct military talks with U.S
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North Korea called on Friday for military talks with the United States for peace and security on the peninsula, while Washington has said it can discuss a peace treaty after Pyongyang abandons its nuclear weapons program.
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South Korea is pressing the United States to show greater flexibility in its efforts to restart nuclear disarmament talks with North Korea, the unification ministry said.
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The United States has conveyed a proposal to North Korea to resume six-nation talks on its nuclear drive next month, South Korean officials said Thursday.
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North Korea offered to meet a U.S. request that it declare and disable its nuclear programs by the end of the year, South Korea said Wednesday, indicating its will to comply with a disarmament pledge after shutting down its sole operating reactor.
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North Korea is urging an end to what it calls U.S. hostility while Washington believes the time is ripe for real progress when six-party talks seeking to end North Korea's nuclear weapons programs restart on Monday.
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The White House urged North Korea to return to talks aimed at defusing a dispute over Pyongyang's nuclear programs, calling such activities "a threat to global peace."
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BEIJING -- North Korea demanded a bilateral dialogue with the United States yesterday, a day after it declared itself a nuclear power, but the Bush administration quickly rejected the demand and insisted that Pyongyang return to six-party talks on its nuclear program.
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North Korea set three conditions on  Friday to be met before it would consider returning to  six-party talks on its nuclear programs.
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North Korea said today it could resume six-nation talks on its nuclear weapons programmes if the US agrees to change its policy toward the communist state.
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A group of U.S. Congressmen met with North Korea's foreign minister in Pyongyang on Wednesday, the communist state's official news agency said, in an effort to persuade the North to rejoin talks on its nuclear weapons ambitions.
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North Korea must understand that six- nation talks are the only way to resolve concerns over its nuclear program, US Secretary of State Colin Powell said.
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North Korea's obligatory declaration of its nuclear programs under a disarmament pact must include its secret uranium enrichment, the U.S. envoy in talks with Pyongyang said on Tuesday.
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TOKYO Secretary of State Colin Powell says North Korea should set aside concerns about so-called &quot;hostile acts&quot; by the US and rejoin nuclear disarmament talks.
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The chief nuclear negotiators of North Korea and the United States are planning to visit each other's capital soon, a diplomatic source in Seoul was quoted as saying in a South Korean news report on Thursday.
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BEIJING -- The United States demanded yesterday that North Korea offer real steps to nuclear disarmament at six-country negotiations, which China announced would resume on Feb. 8 in Beijing. A US Treasury official said that talks with Pyongyang on a financial standoff that has overshadowed the nuclear negotiations were inching forward.
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North Korea remains committed to using  six-party talks to defuse a crisis over its nuclear weapons  programs, but only if certain conditions are met, a U.N.  official said on Monday after visiting the reclusive state.
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The United States was pinning hopes on more one-on-one talks with North Korea on Wednesday to achieve progress at multinational negotiations on dismantling the communist state's nuclear arms program.