North Korean crisis needs new âbig-bangâ approach
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Talks on North Koreaâs nuclear aims before Novemberâs US presidential elections are increasingly unlikely and a new âbig bangâ approach to entice Pyongyang is needed, an influential security group said on Thursday.
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Analysis: More tough talk, another provocation. What's behind Pyongyang's threat to test a nuclear weapon?
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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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The five nations working to resolve the North Korean nuclear crisis must seize the opportunity to build on Pyongyang's offer to resume talks, a US lawmaker said after his visit to the country.
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Aug. 27, 2004 - NAIROBI, Kenya Urgent investment is needed in North Korea to deal with severe environmental problems that have depleted the country&#39;s forests, contaminated water supplies and polluted the
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Bluffs and bluster, then capitulation and compromise. North Korea has decades of experience dancing a diplomatic tango with its allies and enemies to get what it wants &#151; and leaving the rest of the world guessing as to the real intent of the isolated communist regime.
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Support from allies becomes crucial in solving crises both nuclear and conventional
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The nuclear standoff between North Korea and the U.S. was sharply escalated, even as a proposal emerged to solve the nuclear standoff with Iran.
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Britain demands an explanation from North Korea after reports of a blast that left a mushroom shaped cloud.
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THE United Nationsâ chief weapons inspector says North Korea poses a serious challenge to attempts to limit the worldâs nuclear weapons.
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South Korea is seeking independent  verification on the nature of a huge blast in North Korea last  week, which its communist neighbor has said was linked to a  hydroelectric scheme, Seoul's defense minister said on Tuesday.
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North Korea's two-year-old nuclear crisis  has taxed the world's patience, the chief United Nations  nuclear regulator said Wednesday, urging communist Pyongyang to  return to its disarmament treaty obligations.
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Stalinist North Korea has set up a new war plan focusing on defense from US attacks and highlighting underground protection facilities, Seoul news reports say.
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North Korea urged its impoverished people Saturday to rally around Stalinist leader Kim Jong Il, after Washington rebuffed the communist North's demand that the two sides hold bilateral talks to curb nuclear tension.
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Calling it a matter of urgency, Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday North Korea should resume participation in nuclear disarmament talks and set aside its concerns about new "hostile acts" by the United States against the communist government.
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North Korea's military calls for direct talks with the US to discuss security on the Korean peninsula.
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South Korea urged the United States to  try talking to North Korea instead of taking a hard line over  its nuclear plans, while Pyongyang said it would be "quite  possible" to solve the crisis if Washington changed its stance.