South Korea Urges Atomic Talks, North Softens Tone
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South Korea urged the United States to try talking to North Korea instead of taking a hard line over its nuclear plans, while Pyongyang said it would be "quite possible" to solve the crisis if Washington changed its stance.
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South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon called at the United Nations for a swift resumption of talks aimed at convincing North Korea to shelve its nuclear weapons programme.
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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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South Korea says it wants to see a peaceful solution to the controversy over North Korea's programme.
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SEOUL -- North and South Korea are restoring ties during talks this week following the communist country's pledge to shut down its nuclear reactor, paving the way for restoration of aid to the North and reunions for families split by the divided peninsula.
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South Korea on Tuesday downplayed the first assessment by the UNâs nuclear watchdog on alleged mistakes in its nuclear activities over the past two decades, dismissing the expression of ``serious
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SEOUL -- South Korea yesterday added pressure on North Korea to comply with an international disarmament agreement, refusing the impoverished nation's demand to restore full aid shipments until after its main nuclear reactor is shut down.
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North Korea called on Friday for military talks with the United States for peace and security on the peninsula, with Washington saying it can discuss a peace treaty after Pyongyang abandons its nuclear arms program.
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South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun has urged dialogue rather than the use of force to solve the North Korean nuclear standoff, saying in an interview Friday he was sure talks would eventually lead to a resolution.
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The president of the UN General Assembly has told South Korea&#39;s president in Seoul that North Korea urgently wants to resume talks on dismantling its nuclear weapons program.
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South Korea reacted with shock and  suspicion on Friday to the first declaration from the reclusive  North that it had nuclear weapons and had pulled out  indefinitely from six-party disarmament talks.
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North Korea has demanded bilateral talks with the United States to defuse tension created by its announcement that it is a nuclear power, the communist state's U.N. envoy said in a South Korean newspaper interview published Friday.
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Leaders of Japan and South Korea have jointly urged North Korea to return to talks aimed at ending its nuclear weapons program. They agreed that imposing economic sanctions now on Pyongyang would thwart such efforts.
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North Korea Saturday dashed the South's hope of quickly resuming bilateral talks between the two old Cold War enemies, declaring there is no hope for progress unless South Korea's nuclear experiments are fully investigated.
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North Korea was probably pushed to take a deal to shut down its nuclear reactor in return for aid because of its faltering economy and limited diplomatic options, a senior South Korean official said on Friday.
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SEOUL, South Korea  - South Korea and the United  States are hoping China can bring unruly ally North Korea back  to stalled talks on dismantling its nuclear weapons programs,  Seoul's foreign minister said.
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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.