US, allies voice regret over North Korean statement
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The United States and its allies expressed regret after North Korea said it had developed nuclear weapons to protect itself against a US attack and would indefinitely boycott multilateral talks on dismantling its atomic programs.
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By acknowledging doubts about what it knows of North Korea's uranium enrichment program, the United States aims to set the record straight and ease resolution of an issue that has been a key obstacle to a nuclear agreement since 2002, U.S. officials and experts say.
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The Bush administration is trying to keep a lid on growing frustration over faltering talks to rid North Korea of nuclear weapons as criticism surfaces from hardliners in the wings, experts say.
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American intelligence officials now question conclusions in 2002 about the progress of North Koreaâs pursuit of a nuclear device using uranium.
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell is acknowledging that American intelligence experts do not know how far along North Korea&#39;s nuclear weapons programme is and may not be able to find out.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has criticized the reclusive country's traditional close allies China and Russia as unreliable, Japan's Kyodo news agency said.
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Taiwan said on Saturday it regretted  U.S. comments criticizing the island's planned referendum on  U.N. membership and hinted that Washington should not to give  in to pressure from China on the matter.
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November 12, 2004 ã¡ Comments from Chinese and Japanese officials suggest that North Korea was not yet ready to resume the stalled six-nation talks aimed at ending its nuclear program.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Thursday he would regret a new North Korean missile launch but it would not change the US diplomatic effort to persuade Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear ambitions.
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TOKYO, Jan. 1 -- North Korea failed to fulfill its October promise to declare all its nuclear programs by the end of 2007 -- and the United States did not make a big deal out of it.
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A number of top U.S-based physicists have concluded the United States used inaccurate claims to reassure NATO allies about U.S. missile defense plans in Eastern Europe
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SEOUL, OCTOBER 26: US secretary of State Colin Powell on Tuesday sought to fend off complaints from key partners in the effort to end North Koreaâs nuclear programs that the Bush administration has not been sufficiently creative or willing to compromise
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A dispute over whether North Korea has given the U.S. details of its nuclear programs has become the latest hurdle in efforts to rid the North of its atomic arsenal.
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The U.S. and North Korea are talking again, but will Pyongyang keep its promise to abandon nuclear weapons?
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The United States chided its allies for not doing more to force Sudan to accept the deployment of UN peacekeepers in its war-torn Darfur region.
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BEIJING - South Korea and the US yesterday sought to play down fears that North Korea might have conducted a nuclear test after reports of a large explosion in the northern part of the communist country.
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&quot;DON&#39;T have a reaction, I&#39;ll leave it to the analysts,&quot; responded US State Department official Adam Ereli to questions about the significance of reports that North Korea&#39;s media had stopped calling Kim Jong-il &quot;Dear Leader&quot;.