North Korea 'makes weapon pledge'
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North Korea has reportedly said it plans to extract more plutonium for use in nuclear weapons.
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Reports out of Japan claim that there are activities in North Korea implying that the country may be preparing to launch one of its ballistic missiles.
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North Korea is committed to its nuclear decommissioning, says an EU lawmaker following talks with the North.
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North Korea's No. 2 leader reiterated Thursday his country's pledge to abandon its nuclear weapons, as the impoverished nation sought a resumption of aid at its first high-level talks with South Korea since conducting an atomic test.
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North Korea has taken a calculated  bargaining risk by announcing for the first time it has nuclear  weapons, a South Korean official said Saturday, after the  United States rejected North Korean calls for one-on-one talks.
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North Korea's declaration that it  possesses nuclear weapons does not make it a nuclear weapons  state, South Korea's unification minister said on Monday.
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North Korea offered to meet a U.S. request that it declare and disable its nuclear programs by the end of the year, South Korea said Wednesday, indicating its will to comply with a disarmament pledge after shutting down its sole operating reactor.
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Â· South Korea's president forces promise at summit Â· Kim Jong-il told to give up nuclear programme
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North Korea says it will treat as a "war declaration" any sanctions imposed by Japan in a kidnapping row.
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North Korea on Thursday publicly acknowledged for the first time that it had tested missiles and vowed to continue launching them, threatening to &quot;take stronger physical actions&quot; against opponents of the tests.
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North Korea said on Tuesday that it would conduct a nuclear test in the future but remained committed to the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, Pyongyang's official KCNA news agency said.
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North Korea has warned Japan that any sanctions against the communist state would be regarded as a declaration of war. Opinion polls show about two-thirds of the Japanese public supporting
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North Korea will receive its first promised shipment of energy aid next week, South Korea said Wednesday, a day after Pyongyang's reclusive leader urged progress in a deal to dismantle his country's nuclear programs.
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MOUNT KUMGANG, North Korea  - In a variation on  the swords-to-plowshares theme, North Korea is swapping heavy  artillery for golf clubs.
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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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The United States expects North Korea to  fully account for its program to enrich uranium for nuclear  weapons as a part of the deal it struck to start scrapping its  atomic arms, a senior official said on Tuesday.
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North Korea's declaration that it possesses nuclear weapons does not make it a nuclear weapons state, South Korean Unification Minister Chung Dong-young said on Monday.