US 'cannot allow' nuclear N Korea
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Washington says it will not accept a nuclear-armed North Korea after Pyongyang announces test plans.
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North Korea is prolonging its isolation by refusing to return to six-nation talks aimed at dismantling the country&#39;s nuclear programs, US State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said.
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North Korea has not met its  commitment to fully account for its nuclear activities by the  end of 2007 under a disarmament agreement, the United States  said on Sunday, urging Pyongyang to comply with its  obligations.
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The United States said that its warnings to North Korea against conducting a nuclear weapons test were &quot;not a lethal threat&quot; and denied seeking the collapse of the regime in Pyongyang.
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The United States has assumed since  the mid-1990s that North Korea could make nuclear weapons,  Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday, playing down  a dramatic announcement from Pyongyang.
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The United States in its starkest warning so far said on Wednesday it would not live with a nuclear-armed North Korea, while Japan and other neighbors hardened their responses after the reclusive state announced it planned a nuclear test.
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North Korea will not abandon its  nuclear weapons until the United States gives up what Pyongyang  regards as a "hostile" policy toward it and drops financial  sanctions, its envoy to nuclear talks said on Saturday.
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North Korea has set tough terms for a freeze of one of its nuclear facilities, demanding that the United States exceed commitments made under a Clinton-era deal that the Bush administration previously derided as inadequate.
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PYONGYANG, North Korea -- North Korea told the United States that it shut down its nuclear reactor, the State Department said yesterday, hours after a ship cruised into port loaded with oil promised in return for the country's pledge to disarm.
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North Korean and US officials met this week to discuss the nuclear standoff on the Korean Peninsula. It appears they came no closer to resuming multilateral
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The United States urged North Korea Tuesday to stop boasting about its nuclear weapons capability and return to the negotiating table to resolve the nuclear crisis in the Korean peninsula.
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North Korea blamed the United States on Monday for blocking six-country talks on scrapping its nuclear programs, denying it had stalled the talks itself to await the outcome of the U.S. presidential election.
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The United States on Friday called on North Korea to declare its nuclear programs after Pyongyang missed a December 31 deadline for the declaration, which had been demanded in a disarmament-for-aid deal.
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Top U.S. nuclear negotiator Christopher Hill on Tuesday rebuffed North Korea's claim that Washington has agreed to remove Pyongyang from a list of states that sponsor terrorism, Japan's Kyodo news agency reported.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell has rejected the notion that divisions in the Bush administration had hindered Washington's ability to roll back North Korea's nuclear program.
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The United States urged North Korea to stop boasting about its nuclear weapons capability and return to the negotiating table to resolve the nuclear crisis in the Korean peninsula.
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The White House said on Friday that North Korea should not test a nuclear weapon, amid speculation Pyongyang might detonate a device as early as this weekend.