Korea talks snag over food aid pledges
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North Korea has threatened to suspend family reunions with the rival South unless Seoul gives it food aid as agreed, casting a pall over high-level reconciliation talks between the divided Koreas, a news report said Friday.
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Senior officials from the United States,  South Korea and Japan held talks on Friday aimed at arranging a  fresh round of six-party negotiations on dismantling North  Korea's nuclear programs as doubts grew about the outlook for  discussions later this month.
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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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South Korea will likely wait until North  Korea returns to talks before dealing with a request for  fertilizer to help its faltering agricultural sector, a South  Korean government minister said on Monday.
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Japan has protested to North Korea and threatened to cut food aid after an incident involving the ashes of a Japanese woman. Tokyo&#39;s has accused Pyongyang of handing over other people&#39;s ashes to prove the
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South Korea and the United States were discussing a last-minute deal until late Friday night over how to deal with the North Korean nuclear issue ahead of the summit meeting between
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North Korea appealed at high-level talks Thursday for aid from South Korea, which appeared resistant to promising major assistance until Pyongyang keeps its pledge to start dismantling its nuclear weapons program.
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A US envoy said this week's talks on North Korea's nuclear weapons could discuss economic incentives for Pyongyang, but Japan ruled out funding a deal without progress in a dispute over kidnapped Japanese.
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U.S. and North Korean diplomats met face-to-face Tuesday to discuss international efforts to get the communist regime to give up its nuclear arms program and the North's demand for Washington to stop trying to freeze it out of the global banking system.
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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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PUSAN, South Korea  - North Korea stormed out of   talks with South Korea on Thursday and Seoul froze food aid to   its impoverished neighbor, as regional fissures over how to   deal with Pyongyang's missile tests widened.
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The United States and North Korea haggled on Monday over energy aid the North would receive in exchange for ending its nuclear arms ambitions as six-party talks looked likely to straggle into an extra day.
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North Korea appears almost certain to miss a deadline in a nuclear deal, a development that is unlikely to scuttle the disarmament-for-aid pact it reached with regional powers but could hamper its implementation.
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Japanese and North Korean diplomats met on Tuesday to smooth the way toward improving relations, but Tokyo said it would not establish ties until the issue of its citizens abducted by Pyongyang was resolved.
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North and South Korea meet for a new round of talks, with tensions expected over delayed rice shipments.
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BEIJING, Feb. 11 -- Deadlocked over energy aid to North Korea, envoys to six-nation denuclearization talks decided Sunday night to give themselves one more day to come up with an agreement on the first steps toward getting rid of North Korea's nuclear weapons program.
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SEOUL -- South Korea yesterday added pressure on North Korea to comply with an international disarmament agreement, refusing the impoverished nation's demand to restore full aid shipments until after its main nuclear reactor is shut down.