Minister to visit North Korea
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In a small softening of relations between North Korea and the west, it was announced yesterday that Bill Rammell of the Foreign Office is to become the first British minister to visit the communist state.
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Foreign Minister Alexander Downer was optimistic that North Korea would attend the next round of six-country talks aimed at dismantling its nuclear program following his flying visit to the reclusive Communist state.
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A U.S. diplomat will visit Pyongyang this week to try to advance a multilateral deal under which North Korea agreed to disclose its nuclear programs and ultimately to abandon them, a U.S. official said on Monday.
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A top North Korean official is visiting China for talks expected to focus on nuclear arms, as well as the North's economy.
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UN inspectors are expected Thursday to visit the reactor at the centre of North Korea&#39;s nuclear programme in their first on-site inspection in nearly five years, the head of the team said.
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The British government has announced plans to send a top Foreign Office representative to North Korea in September. Junior Minister for East Asia Bill Rammell will become the first British minister to visit
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North Korea's chief nuclear negotiator plans to visit the United States within days for follow-up talks on a recent disarmament deal, South Korean news reports said Saturday.
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The chief inspector of the United  Nation&#39;s nuclear watchdog arrived in China on Monday on his way  to North Korea, where he hopes to arrange the return of an IAEA  team to monitor Pyongyang&#39;s promised reactor shutdown.
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Foreign Office minister Bill Rammell is travelling to North Korea - the first British minister to visit the ultra-secretive communist state.
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North Korea&#39;s second-most senior leader toured a shiny new science park in Beijing Monday, a first stop on visit aimed at finding ways to help the North&#39;s moribund economy as much as jump-starting stalled nuclear talks.
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A top official at the International Atomic Energy Agency is expected to visit North Korea within two weeks to discuss details of nuclear reactor inspection that Pyongyang agreed to during the recent international disarmament talks, a Japanese newspaper reported Saturday.
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The head of the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog will be in Seoul next week, a ministry said on Thursday, for a trip that comes as momentum is building for a shutdown of North Korea's nuclear reactor to be overseen by his agency.
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North Korea will allow a team of U.N. nuclear watchdog officials to visit the Yongbyon reactor it agreed to shut down under a disarmament-for-aid deal, Japan's Kyodo news agency said on Wednesday.
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British junior foreign office minister  Bill Rammell will go to North Korea next month in the  highest-level visit to the isolated Communist state by a UK  official, London said on Tuesday.
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A U.S. diplomat will visit Pyongyang this week to try to advance a stalled deal under which North Korea promised to disclose all its nuclear programs and eventually abandon them, a U.S. official said on Monday.
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North Korea on Thursday invited the chief U.S. nuclear envoy to visit the communist nation if Washington proves its commitment to an agreement last year in which the North pledged to abandon its nuclear weapons program.
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_ North Korea said Monday that a huge cloud caused by an explosion several days ago was the planned demolition of a mountain for a hydroelectric project, and the reclusive government invited a British diplomat to visit the site to