N.Korea begins disarmament
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North Korea agreed to take steps toward nuclear disarmament under a groundbreaking deal struck on Tuesday that will bring the impoverished communist state more than $300 million worth of aid.
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South Korea sent a shipload of oil to North Korea on Thursday, a move expected to trigger the communist nation to shut down its only working nuclear reactor in a landmark first step toward dismantling its atomic bomb program.
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North Korea was poised to take its first step in nearly five years toward scaling back its nuclear weapons program with U.N. inspectors en route to the North Friday to monitor the shutdown of its sole operating atomic reactor.
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U.N. inspectors have confirmed that North Korea has shut down its sole functioning nuclear reactor, its first step toward halting production of nuclear weapons.
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North Korea has taken a calculated  bargaining risk by announcing for the first time it has nuclear  weapons, a South Korean official said Saturday, after the  United States rejected North Korean calls for one-on-one talks.
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Negotiators on North Korea's nuclear programs engaged in intense diplomacy Saturday to resolve remaining hurdles to a deal that would see the communist state take its first real steps to disarm.
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North Korea has invited a delegation of the United Nations nuclear watchdog to visit the country in what could be a first step towards implementing an international agreement intended to curb its nuclear program.
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FOREIGN Minister Alexander Downer will today begin talks with North Korean officials to try to convince the communist state to drop its nuclear weapons program.
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North Korea said on Monday it would start  implementing a nuclear disarmament deal struck in February and  awaits a visit by U.N. inspectors now that a dispute over its  funds frozen at a Macau bank had been resolved.
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North Korea will soon start disabling its  Soviet-era nuclear facility that makes arms-grade plutonium as  called for in a deal the secretive state struck with regional  powers, the South's foreign minister said on Wednesday.
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North Korea agreed on Tuesday to take steps toward nuclear disarmament in exchange for $300 million in aid under a deal President George W. Bush hailed as the best chance to get it to scrap its atomic weapons program.
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North Korea has told the United States it has shut down its Yongbyon nuclear facilities, the State Department said on Saturday as a team of U.N. nuclear inspectors arrived in Pyongyang.
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U.S. and North Korean officials started talks on Monday aimed at eventually normalizing diplomatic ties as part of an agreement under which Pyongyang has pledged to scrap its nuclear arms programs in exchange for aid.
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North Korea has told the United  States it has shut down a nuclear reactor as part of a  disarmament deal, the U.S. State Department said on Saturday  after a team of U.N. nuclear inspectors arrived in Pyongyang.
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Ships from  Japan, the United States, Australia and France on Tuesday began  Asia's first naval exercise to clamp down on weapons of mass  destruction, a drill that communist North Korea has called  hostile and provocative.
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North Korea agreed Sunday to declare and disable all its nuclear facilities by the end of the year, the chief U.S. negotiator said -- the first time the communist country has offered a timeline to end its secretive atomic program.
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BEIJING, Feb. 13 -- Envoys from six nations reached a tentative agreement early Tuesday on the first steps toward North Korea's nuclear disarmament, a potential breakthrough in talks that have faltered repeatedly since 2003.