Russia helps N Korea fund dispute
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Russia helps solve a North Korea banking dispute, which had hindered a nuclear deal, US officials say.
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North Korea's foreign ministry confirms it has received $25m, as UN nuclear inspectors head to Pyongyang.
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Russia expects the transfer of $25 million in unfrozen North Korean funds to be completed on Monday, Russian news agencies quoted a Russian government source as saying on Friday.
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Most of the North Korean funds long frozen in a Macau bank have been transferred, media reports said on Thursday, raising the prospect of an end to the deadlock stalling a nuclear disarmament deal with Pyongyang.
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Russia has split its oil proceeds into two funds and has cleared the way for one to invest in foreign stocks and bonds, officials said. Actual investments are not expected to begin until next fall.
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Nuclear-armed North Korea used UN-linked bank accounts to secretly transfer funds in connection with alleged weapons sales, a US Senate probe showed Thursday.
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Moscow is &quot;holding direct talks with the leaders of North Korea&quot; to try to prevent Pyongyang carrying out a test of a nuclear weapon, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said.
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North Korea's official media said on Monday the issue of frozen funds at the centre of a months-long nuclear impasse has been resolved and it will begin implementing a February disarmament deal.
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Most of the North Korean funds long frozen in a Macau bank have been transferred, an official said on Thursday, raising the prospect of an end to the deadlock stalling a nuclear disarmament deal with Pyongyang.
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Russia delivered nuclear fuel for an Iranian power plant that is at the center of the dispute over Iranâs nuclear program.
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Russia expects the transfer of $25  million in unfrozen North Korean funds to be completed on  Monday, Russian news agencies quoted a Russian government  source as saying on Friday.
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Experts from America, Russia and China will travel to North Korea later this month to study how the country's nuclear facilities can be shut down, a US official says.
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Russia said that it did not expect North Korea to agree to resume faltering six-way talks about its nuclear weapons program as scheduled this month.
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South Korea is working with its  diplomatic partners to try to hold nuclear talks with North  Korea this month, but recent North Korean comments suggested no  grounds for optimism, the South's foreign minister said on  Friday. There are plans to hold a fourth round of nuclear  negotiations among the two Koreas, the United States, China,  Japan and Russia by the end of September as the countries  agreed at the previous session in June.
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China lent Russia $6 billion to help the  Kremlin renationalize the key unit of oil major YUKOS,  officials said on Tuesday, underpinning oil-hungry Beijing's  efforts to tap into Russia's huge energy business.
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Russia says it is attempting to dissuade North Korea from carrying out its plan to test a nuclear weapon.
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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.