North Korea urged to end nuclear plans swiftly
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South Korea urged North Korea on Wednesday to act quickly to end its nuclear arms programme when the rival states met for their first high-level talks since Pyongyang's missile and nuclear tests last year.
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US chief negotiator Christopher Hill called on North Korea Tuesday to speed up the shutdown of its nuclear programme as UN inspectors prepared for their first mission in four years to the communist state.
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The international community needs to  offer incentives to North Korea rather than just apply pressure  for it to return to six-party talks aimed at dismantling its  nuclear program, the head of the U.N. nuclear agency said on  Friday.
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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 said Saturday it was willing to abandon its nuclear weapons programs, but it demanded a change in American policy as a California congressman critical of the communist state's human rights records visited Pyongyang.
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North Korea warned that it would slow work to disable its main nuclear complex at Yongbyon, north of Pyongyang, because of delays in deliveries of aid.
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Chief US nuclear envoy Christopher Hill called for patience Wednesday in getting North Korea to dismantle its weapons drive, saying there was no need to panic over a missed deadline.
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North Korea said Sunday it is ready to permanently disable the nuclear reactor it just turned off if the United States lifts economic sanctions on the impoverished nation and strikes it from a list of terrorism sponsors.
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World powers are set to adopt a joint statement urging North Korea to abandon plans to test a nuclear device, which Japan said could happen as early as this weekend.
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The United States expects North Korea to shut down the reactor at the heart of its atomic arms development within about three weeks, top U.S. nuclear envoy Christopher Hill said on Saturday.
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The International Atomic Energy Agency has called on North Korea to scrap its nuclear weapons ambitions and give inspectors entry visas so they can supervise a return to peaceful activities.
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North Korea on Tuesday invited in International Atomic Energy Agency monitors to verify a promised shutdown of its atomic bomb program and they will travel to the country within the next few days, the IAEA said.
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The chief U.S. envoy in nuclear disarmament talks with North Korea said on Tuesday he wanted U.N. officers visiting the reclusive state next week to strike a quick deal to shut its reactor and source of bomb-grade plutonium.
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The United Nations nuclear watchdog Friday called on North Korea to give up any nuclear weapons it may have and allow UN inspectors to return to verify that the country&#39;s atomic program is peaceful.
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The United States urged North Korea to stop boasting about its nuclear weapons capability and return to the negotiating table to resolve the nuclear crisis in the Korean peninsula.
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President Bush urges North Korea to give up nuclear ambitions at a summit rocked by  protests.
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North Korea is seriously considering its  role in talks on its nuclear plans because of what it sees as a  concerted campaign to topple the North's system, the North  Korean Foreign Ministry said on Monday.