Seoul Sees Efforts Gathering Pace for N.Korea Talks
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This week's talks between Japan and North Korea show that efforts to hold another round of six-party negotiations on the North's nuclear program are gathering pace, South Korea's foreign minister said on Wednesday.
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No matter who wins the Nov. 2  election, the United States is expected to move quickly to  engage North Korea in a new round of talks about its suspected  nuclear weapons programs, South Korean ambassador Han Sung-joo  said on Wednesday.
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Senior Chinese and South Korean officials have met in an effort to restart stalled talks on North Korean nuclear disarmament amid signs of US impatience with the diplomatic process.
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North Korea is willing to take initial steps toward ending its nuclear arms program, South Korean officials said after six-party talks opened on Thursday, hinting at rare progress in talks which have ended in stalemate for years.
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South Korea urged North Korea on Wednesday to act quickly to end its nuclear arms programme when the rival states met for their first high-level talks since Pyongyang's missile and nuclear tests last year.
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South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun said  on Sunday he expected only slow progress in the six-nation  talks to end Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions but retained hopes  for a diplomatic resolution.
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South Korea's foreign minister sounded a note of caution ahead of six-nation talks on freezing the North's nuclear program, saying Wednesday there is far to go before a final agreement is reached. The negotiations &#151; which involve the United States, the two Koreas, China, Russia and Japan &#151; are set to resume Feb. 8 in Beijing.
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South Korea's cooperation with the United  Nations' nuclear watchdog over concerns about past atomic  experiments should serve as an example to North Korea, the U.S.  ambassador to Seoul said on Friday.
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The two Koreas tried to mend relations at cabinet-level talks on Tuesday, but the North's refusal to act on a nuclear disarmament deal could lead Seoul to delay rice aid promised to its impoverished neighbor.
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Expected international talks on North Korea's nuclear program to firm up a deadline for the country to disable its facilities so it can no longer produce weapons have been postponed, regional officials said Monday.
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North Korea heads into talks with the region's main powers this week with signs the impoverished state may be ready to agree to an initial deal over demands it stop building a nuclear arsenal in exchange for aid.
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North Korean and U.S. officials met this  week in New York but made no progress on restarting six-party  talks on the North's nuclear programs, a North Korean Foreign  Ministry spokesman said on Saturday.
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China's top nuclear negotiator arrived in Seoul on Friday for talks on how to revive the long-stalled international talks on North Korea's nuclear program.
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North Korea wants to restart six-party talks on its nuclear programs urgently but still wants certain conditions met, a top U.N. official told South Korea's Yonhap news agency on Thursday.
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The chief U.S. envoy on North Korea met  South Korean officials Wednesday on the latest leg of a visit  to Asia to press the case for a swift resumption of six-way  talks on Pyongyang's nuclear programs.
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Envoys to North Korean disarmament talks began gathering Wednesday, and the chief U.S. negotiator said he expected "hard bargaining" over new proposals to get the North to abandon its nuclear programs
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South Korean and U.S. officials are discussing a possible visit by Secretary of State Colin Powell to Seoul next week, the Foreign Ministry said on Saturday, just two weeks ahead of the U.S. presidential election.