Two Koreas meet, Bush defends nuclear deal
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North and South Korea held talks on  Thursday to mend fences broken by Pyongyang's missile and  nuclear tests, buoyed by an energy-for-disarmament deal that  President Bush defended as a "good first step."
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North Korea&#39;s nuclear aspirations, allies&#39; worries about the US budget deficit and hopes for global trade deals will be on the agenda this weekend as President Bush attends
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President George W. Bush warned North   Korea on Wednesday against test-firing a long-range missile,   while other U.S. officials rejected Pyongyang's offer of   bilateral talks with Washington on the issue.
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North Korea boasted publicly for the first time Thursday that it has nuclear weapons and said it will stay away from disarmament talks, dramatically raising the stakes in the 2-year-old dispute. The Bush administration called on Pyongyang to give up its atomic aspirations so life can be better for its impoverished people.
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Six-party talks aimed at dismantling North Korea's nuclear program resume in Beijing on Thursday with the top U.S. envoy denying a Japanese media report that the isolated state had signed a deal with Washington.
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SYDNEY, Australia  -- In a testy public exchange Friday with South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun, President Bush said the United States would formally end the Korean War only when North Korea halts its nuclear weapons program.
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US President George W. Bush said that he and visiting South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun had recommitted themselves to six-party talks aimed at defusing the North Korea nuclear crisis.
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Efforts to get North Korea to scrap its nuclear weapons programs are expected to be high on the agenda when President Bush meets with other Asia-Pacific
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North Korea said on Saturday it would not return to six-party talks on its nuclear program until President Bush spelled out the policies of his second term in office.
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US President George W. Bush has rejected criticism of a breakthrough nuclear deal with North Korea and launched a personal bid to press Pyongyang to live up to its commitments.
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President Bush defended a landmark nuclear agreement reached Tuesday with North Korea, calling it "the best opportunity" for diplomacy to succeed in ridding the Pyongyang government of all atomic weapons and capabilities.
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North Korea called Wednesday for direct talks with the United States over a potential missile test, but the Bush administration rejected the overture, saying threats aren&#039;t the way to seek dialogue.
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President Bush and South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun on Thursday reaffirmed their desire to draw North Korea back into talks about its nuclear weapons program.
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The United States on Monday dismissed as inappropriate North Korea&#39;s unusually strong personal attacks on President George W. Bush, but remained confident Pyongyang would attend talks to resolve the nuclear crisis in the Korean peninsula.
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President Bush sought help on Saturday  from Chinese President Hu Jintao and other key allies at an  Asia-Pacific summit on getting North Korea to return to stalled  talks over its nuclear weapons program.
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President Bush and South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun agreed yesterday to work together to restart stalled six-party nuclear talks with North Korea, but they skated over their deep differences in how to deal with the isolated Stalinist government in Pyongyang.
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The determination of North Korea to  develop nuclear arms could harden after President Bush and his  rival, Senator John Kerry, clashed over how to proceed with  six-party talks on Pyongyang's ambitions, analysts said.