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 called on Friday for military talks with the United States for peace and security on the peninsula, while Washington has said it can discuss a peace treaty after Pyongyang abandons its nuclear weapons program.
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North Korea has said an early resumption of six-party talks on its nuclear arms programme will be difficult, and it wants to see how US President George W. Bush deals
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President Bush and his rival, Senator  John Kerry, may have clashed over how to stop North Korea's  nuclear plans but their policies are not as far apart as their  first debate suggested, analysts said on Friday.
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President Bush said Thursday that the United States is seeking a diplomatic solution to the nuclear standoff with North Korea, but cautioned that diplomacy will take time.
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The two Koreas tried to mend relations at cabinet-level talks on Tuesday, but the North's refusal to act on a nuclear disarmament deal could lead Seoul to delay rice aid promised to its impoverished neighbor.
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The United States and South Korea discussed a possible peace treaty for the Korean peninsula when a State Department official visited here last week, Seoul officials said.
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North Korea on Tuesday accused the administration of US President George W. Bush of using a dispute over its nuclear weapons program to gain votes in next week&#39;s presidential election.
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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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Washington has urged Asian countries to call for denuclearization of the Korean peninsula while North Korean officials defended Pyongyang's development of nuclear weapons, at meetings this week in Manila.
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Washington - Re-elected United States President George W Bush will waste little time in trying to get nuclear-armed North Korea back to the negotiating table and dealing with the fallout of Iraq and the war on terrorism on Muslim communities in Asia as he
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The two Koreas set up a meeting for Thursday to discuss resuming high-level talks, the first sign of tensions relaxing on the divided peninsula after North Korea signed a breakthrough nuclear disarmament agreement.
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South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun shrugged off worries about the health of his country's five-decade alliance with the United States ahead of talks Thursday with President Bush.
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US President George W. Bush courted Russia and China&#039;s support for confronting North Korea over its missile barrage as US diplomats aided a Japanese push for UN sanctions on Pyongyang.
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President Bush on Wednesday said  critics of the North Korea nuclear deal were "flat wrong," as  the two Koreas agreed to resume ministerial talks on economic  cooperation and cross-border ties.
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North and South Korea resumed high-level meetings Tuesday for the first time since the North tested a nuclear bomb in October, paving the way for a resumption of aid to impoverished Pyongyang after it pledged to start dismantling its atomic weapons program.
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SANTIAGO: US President George W Bush sought help yesterday 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 programme.