North Korea must scrap nuclear weapons: U.S.
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North Korea needs to take concrete steps toward dismantling its nuclear weapons program at six-way talks next week in China, the chief U.S. envoy to the discussions said on Saturday.
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The United States has assumed since  the mid-1990s that North Korea could make nuclear weapons,  Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday, playing down  a dramatic announcement from Pyongyang.
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North Korea has told the United States it has shut down its Yongbyon nuclear facilities, the State Department said on Saturday as a team of U.N. nuclear inspectors arrived in Pyongyang.
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The United States has compelling  evidence North Korea has a uranium-based nuclear weapons  program and ending this activity is essential to resolving the  nuclear dispute with Pyongyang, according to two key former  U.S. officials.
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The United States and its allies expressed regret after North Korea said it had developed nuclear weapons to protect itself against a US attack and would indefinitely boycott multilateral talks on dismantling its atomic programs.
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North Korea said Sunday it is ready to permanently disable the nuclear reactor it just turned off if the United States lifts economic sanctions on the impoverished nation and strikes it from a list of terrorism sponsors.
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North Korea declared Thursday for the  first time it possessed nuclear weapons and pulled out  indefinitely from six-party talks on its atomic ambitions,  saying it needed a defense against a hostile United States.
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The European Union, Japan, the United States and other world powers Wednesday urged North Korea to swiftly dismantle its nuclear weapons program, in statements at a meeting of the UN atomic watchdog.
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North Korea wants sanctions dropped and the United States to free its overseas bank accounts as preconditions for dismantling its nuclear program, a news agency said on Wednesday, terms likely to become a sticking point in negotiations.
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The UN nuclear watchdog agency demanded Friday that North Korea end its nuclear weapons program and urged the country to allow agency inspectors to police the scrapping of its arms programs.
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The United States and Japan demanded real progress when talks on scrapping North Korea's nuclear arms resume this week, warning Pyongyang on Sunday that sanctions and isolation were its only alternative.
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North Korea has taken a calculated  bargaining risk by announcing for the first time it has nuclear  weapons, a South Korean official said Saturday, after the  United States rejected North Korean calls for one-on-one talks.
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North Korea has told the United States it has shut down a nuclear reactor as part of a disarmament deal, the State Department said on Saturday after a team of U.N. nuclear inspectors arrived in Pyongyang.
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The International Atomic Energy Agency has called on North Korea to scrap its nuclear weapons ambitions and give inspectors entry visas so they can supervise a return to peaceful activities.
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WASHINGTON -- North Korea declared yesterday for the first time that it has produced nuclear weapons and said it is quitting six-nation talks on arms control, sending the Bush administration and its allies scrambling to rescue a two-year-old diplomatic strategy to halt Pyongyang's arms program.
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The United States expects North Korea to fully account for its program to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons as a part of the deal it struck to start scrapping its atomic arms, a senior official said on Tuesday.
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The United States and  Japan expect North Korea to keep to an agreement to begin work  on scrapping its nuclear weapons program, U.S. President George  W. Bush said on Wednesday.