Nuclear test means now we can talk: North Korea
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North Korea is prepared to return to six-country talks on its nuclear weapons program at any time now that it has "gained a defensive position" with a nuclear test, a senior envoy of the communist state said on Tuesday.
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BEIJING, Feb. 8 -- Six-nation talks on dismantling North Korea's nuclear weapons program resumed Thursday, buoyed by signs that North Korea is ready to return to serious negotiations.
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South Korea welcomes the UN Security Council's call on North Korea to abandon its nuclear test plans.
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North and South Korea resumed high-level meetings Tuesday for the first time since the North tested a nuclear bomb in October, paving the way for a resumption of aid to impoverished Pyongyang after it pledged to start dismantling its atomic weapons program.
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North Korea's nuclear test shook international safeguards and highlighted the need to wrest control of nuclear material processing from individual states, the chief of the U.N. atomic watchdog said on Tuesday.
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BEIJING, Feb. 8 -- Six-nation talks on dismantling North Korea's nuclear weapons program resumed Thursday, buoyed by signs North Korea is ready to return to serious negotiations.
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China has invited North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il to visit &quot;as soon as possible&quot; amid reports that Pyongyang is preparing for a nuclear bomb test, South Korean media said.
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The head of the UN nuclear agency says North Korea has invited him for talks on its nuclear programme.
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Japan's top government spokesman says Tokyo is stepping up monitoring of North Korea amid speculation that the communist nation could carry out a nuclear test as early as this weekend.
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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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North Korea will not dismantle its nuclear programs or improve ties with South Korea until questions about the South's nuclear experiments are clearly answered, Pyongyang said on Sunday.
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SEOUL, South Korea  - North Korea said Saturday it  would link South Korea's disclosure of unauthorized nuclear  experiments by government scientists to efforts to restart  multiparty talks on the North's nuclear arms ambitions.
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South Korea and China have urged North Korea to return swiftly to six-nation talks after the Stalinist regime sent global tensions spiking by saying it planned to carry out a nuclear test.
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South Korea's incoming president says he is ready to meet the North Korea leader, if it would help the nuclear deal.
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North Korea has made another strong statement about its nuclear capability. At the United Nations on Monday, a North Korean minister said his country had made arms from reprocessed nuclear fuel rods.
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SEOUL -- North Korea publicly admitted today for the first time that it has nuclear weapons, and its foreign ministry said it wouldn't return to six-nation talks aimed at persuading the communist country to abandon its nuclear ambitions
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SEOUL -- North Korea yesterday invited UN nuclear inspectors to the country for a meeting on methods for shutting down its main nuclear reactor.