Nuclear impasse top of agenda as NKorea's No. 2 meets China's leaders
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North Korea's second ranking leader was scheduled to meet with China's two most powerful men as Beijing persisted in its efforts to revive stalled talks on the nuclear standoff.
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Japanese and Chinese officials were trying to arrange a meeting between the leaders of their two countries on the sidelines of a weekend summit to try to calm rising tensions, authorities said.
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North Korea's nuclear envoy arrived in Beijing on Tuesday as chief negotiators from China, the United States, South Korea and Japan were meeting to work out details on the next round of six-nation disarmament talks.
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Senior Chinese leader Li Changchun is  to visit North Korea next week, the Xinhua news agency reported  on Saturday as China tries to coax Pyongyang into fresh talks  on the crisis over its nuclear ambitions.
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The top US and North Korean negotiators on Pyongyang's nuclear program were due to meet one-on-one in the Chinese capital on Sunday, ahead of the resumption of six-way talks stalled since last year.
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North Korea's refusal to take part in  working-level talks on the nuclear crisis prompted a diplomatic  flurry on Tuesday with China, the host of the talks, at the  heart of efforts to keep the process on track.
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BEIJING  - A North Korean delegation headed by the Stalinist state&#39;s number two leader arrived in China amid faltering attempts to resolve the standoff over the North&#39;s nuclear weapons program.
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Six-nation talks on ending North Korea's nuclear program will begin next Saturday morning in Beijing, two months after Pyongyang defied international pressure and conducted its first nuclear test. Such talks have been stalled for more than a year.
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After securing the shutdown of a North Korean nuclear reactor, negotiators gathered in Beijing on Tuesday with the much harder task of coaxing Pyongyang to give up a trove of atomic secrets long guarded as vital for its survival.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit China on October 8 and South Korea the next day for talks with their leaders in a bid to repair ties frayed by disputes over their bitter wartime past, but North Korea's nuclear threat looks set to grab a prominent place on the agenda.
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Senior U.S. and North Korean  officials plan to meet in Beijing on Wednesday as they try to  prepare for fresh multilateral talks on ending Pyongyang's  pursuit of nuclear arms, the State Department said on Tuesday.
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Visiting Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao was set to hold talks with his British counterpart Tony Blair including on strengthening trade ties, energy policy and resolving the Iran nuclear crisis.
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TOKYO/WASHINGTON  - China, its diplomatic  credentials on the line, planned weekend talks with North Korea  over the nuclear crisis amid U.S. hopes that Beijing would  bring new pressure on Pyongyang to rejoin negotiations,  official sources said on Wednesday.
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A top U.S. nuclear envoy met his North Korean counterpart at Pyongyang's embassy in the Chinese capital on Tuesday as Washington sought to revive a disarmament process stalled since the end of last year.
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North Korea's No. 2 leader said Monday that his country still wants to settle the dispute over its nuclear program through dialogue, as China tried to cajole the North back into stalled six-nation talks, calling for flexibility by all sides.
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BEIJING North Korea&#39;s refusal to take part in working-level talks on dismantling its nuclear programs prompted a diplomatic flurry on Tuesday with China, the host of the negotiations, at the heart of efforts to advance the discussions.
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The top U.S. nuclear negotiator said Friday that he will use weekend talks with North Korea to resolve issues that could impede progress in broader international talks over its nuclear program.