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 row with Washington is not settled, a source said on Wednesday as the latest talks wound up with no signs of a breakthrough.
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North Korea may be preparing for another   missile test, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported on   Sunday, but a government official in Seoul discounted the   report.
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North Korea said on Tuesday it would conduct a nuclear test in the future but would never use atomic weapons first and remained committed to the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, Pyongyang's KCNA news agency reported.
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Japan will seek an explanation at weekend talks with North Korea on activity indicating Pyongyang may be preparing a missile test, although Tokyo does not think a launch is imminent, Japan&#39;s top government spokesman said.
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There is concern in Japan and South Korea that North Korea might be preparing to launch a ballistic missile. Officials in both Japan and South Korea say that since Tuesday, they have detected signs of activity
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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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Japanese and North Korean negotiators held a second day of talks in Beijing as part of an effort by Tokyo to get more information on the fate of Japanese nationals kidnapped by North Korean agents decades ago.
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Delegates to six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear weapons program agreed to hold further talks on Tuesday, after meeting into the early hours, suggesting a deal may be in the offing.
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Six-nation talks on ending North Korea's nuclear program will begin next Saturday morning in Beijing, two months after Pyongyang defied international pressure and conducted its first nuclear test. Such talks have been stalled for more than a year.
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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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Japan will use weekend talks with North Korea to ask about reports the North has been preparing a missile test. US and South Korean intelligence has picked up signs a test may be planned, though Japan&#39;s Prime
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TOKYO - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Thursday that North Korea is unlikely to test-fire another ballistic missile. &quot;I think the possibility of launching one is low,&quot; Koizumi told reporters.
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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 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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N Korea is expected to ask the South to resume aid shipments, when officials from the two sides meet later.
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Inspectors from the U.N. nuclear watchdog  arrived in Seoul on Sunday to conduct a second inspection of  South Korea's nuclear experiments, a day after the South said  it had no plans to develop or possess nuclear weapons.
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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.