Get out of nuclear business, U.S. tells North Korea
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The U.S. envoy to nuclear talks headed back to Washington on Thursday with a promise from North Korea that it would study ideas proposed in two days of talks, and said the ball was now in Pyongyang's court.
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North Korea, at the center of a crisis  over its nuclear weapons program, urged the United States on  Saturday to end its hostility in the New Year and said it  itself would work for peace and prosperity.
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North Korea has agreed to fully account for and disable its nuclear program by the end of this year, the top U.S. nuclear negotiator said on Sunday.
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North Korea agreed Sunday to declare and disable all its nuclear facilities by the end of the year, the chief U.S. negotiator said -- the first time the communist country has offered a timeline to end its secretive atomic program.
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Washington urged North Korea on Monday to stop haggling and seal a deal on ending its nuclear arms ambitions after six-party talks snagged on Pyongyang's demand for energy aid worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
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North Korea declared on Thursday for the  first time it possessed nuclear weapons and pulled out  indefinitely from six-party talks on its atomic ambitions,  saying it needed a defense against a hostile United States.
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North Korea is proposing to shutter its main nuclear reactor and allow U.N. monitoring in return for massive energy shipments and normal relations with the United States, according to an American nuclear expert who visited Pyongyang last week.
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North Korea needs to &quot;get moving&quot; on shutting down its nuclear reactor while a complicated banking dispute is being resolved, US envoy Christopher Hill said here Tuesday.
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The United States expects North Korea to  shut down the reactor at the heart of its atomic arms  development within about three weeks, top U.S. nuclear envoy  Christopher Hill said on Saturday.
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The United States urged reclusive North Korea on Thursday to get out of the nuclear business and rejoin a treaty that aims to curb the spread of nuclear weapons.
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North Korea should move quickly to shut down its source of bomb-grade plutonium, a top U.S. envoy said on Tuesday, voicing hope that stalled six-party talks on scrapping its nuclear arms program could resume next month.
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North Korea has told the United States it has shut down its Yongbyon nuclear facilities, the State Department said on Saturday.
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The United States has seen signs in recent days that North Korea is preparing to shut down its Yongbyon nuclear complex as called for under a six-country agreement, a U.S. official said on Monday, but other officials were more cautious.
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North Korea has agreed to declare and disable all its nuclear facilities by the end of this year, the chief U.S. negotiator said Sunday.
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The United States is insisting that  multiple facilities at North Korea&#39;s Yongbyon complex be shut  down, American officials said on Thursday, and these demands  could pose new pitfalls for the February 13 nuclear agreement.
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North Korea has told the United States it has shut down a nuclear reactor as part of a disarmament deal, the U.S. State Department said on Saturday after a team of U.N. nuclear inspectors arrived in Pyongyang.
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North Korea confirmed it has shut its nuclear reactor that provides the secretive state with material to make weapons-grade plutonium, China's Xinhua news agency quoted a North Korean official as saying on Sunday.