Nuclear test means now we can talk: North Korea
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North Korea is prepared to return to six-country talks on its nuclear weapons program at any time now that it has "gained a defensive position" with a nuclear test, a senior envoy of the communist state said on Tuesday.
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North Korea will not dismantle its nuclear programs or improve ties with South Korea until questions about the South's nuclear experiments are clearly answered, Pyongyang said on Sunday.
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North Korea ruled out on Thursday any multi-party talks on its nuclear weapons programs until South Korea's recently disclosed past atomic experiments have been fully explained.
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North Korea says the United States must either change or clarify its position on Pyongyang&#39;s nuclear program before the six-party talks resume.
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BEIJING -- North Korea dramatically changed tack yesterday, announcing that it would return to the process of international negotiations over its nuclear ambitions and saying it would treat the United States "as a friend."
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A day after North Korea said it will conduct a nuclear test in the future, ally China has weighed in, calling on all sides to exercise calm and restraint. "We hope that the DPRK (North Korea's official name) will keep calm and restrained on the nuclear test issue," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said in a statement reported by China's Xinhua news agency.
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Six-nation talks on North Korea's nuclear program resumed Monday for the first time in more than a year, a test of whether the secretive communist regime is willing to negotiate after its surprise atomic test rattled the region this fall.
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China has invited North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il to visit &quot;as soon as possible&quot; amid reports that Pyongyang is preparing for a nuclear bomb test, South Korean media said.
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SEOUL -- North Korea publicly admitted today for the first time that it has nuclear weapons, and its foreign ministry said it wouldn't return to six-nation talks aimed at persuading the communist country to abandon its nuclear ambitions
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North Korea said on Tuesday it would conduct a nuclear test in the future but would never use atomic weapons first and remained committed to the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, Pyongyang's KCNA news agency reported.
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North Korea on Friday announced it would return to six-party nuclear talks and would consider treating the United States as a "friend," shortly after a visiting U.S. congressional delegation said the North appeared ready to negotiate.
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Japan will use weekend talks with North Korea to ask about reports the North is preparing a missile test.
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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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SEOUL, South Korea  - North Korea said Saturday it  would link South Korea's disclosure of unauthorized nuclear  experiments by government scientists to efforts to restart  multiparty talks on the North's nuclear arms ambitions.
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SEOUL, March 2  -- 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 in its first high-level talks with South Korea since conducting an atomic test.
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The head of the UN nuclear agency says North Korea has invited him for talks on its nuclear programme.
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PRETORIA/BEIJING  - North Korea, vilified in the   West for its missile tests, said on Tuesday it was willing to   return to six-party talks on its nuclear program if the United   States dropped financial sanctions.