World ; N.Korea says US talks approach is ``crafty trick``
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World News, SEOUL: North Korea brushed aside today Washington&#39;s suggestion that Pyongyang had much to gain from returning to talks on its nuclear programmes, saying the US approach was a &#39;&#39;crafty trick&#39;&#39; to win presidential election votes.
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The United States and North Korea haggled on Monday over energy aid the North would receive in exchange for ending its nuclear arms ambitions but it looked like some sort of an agreement in six-part talks was emerging.
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The United States and North Korea wrapped up historic talks on establishing diplomatic ties on an optimistic note Tuesday but the U.S. wants Pyongyang to "come clean" about any uranium enrichment program and eliminate all nuclear weapons before normalizing relations.
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The White House urged North Korea to return to talks aimed at defusing a dispute over Pyongyang's nuclear programs, calling such activities "a threat to global peace."
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The United States and South Korea agreed  on Wednesday to keep pushing North Korea to join some form of  talks on Pyongyang's nuclear programs before the end of the  year, Yonhap news agency reported.
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SEOUL -- North Korea suggested yesterday that it would not participate in further six-party negotiations over its nuclear program because of recent revelations that scientists in South Korea had illegally experimented with producing fissile material for nuclear weapons.
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South Korea and the United States have already begun talks about a possible agreement with North Korea formally ending the 1950-53 war on the peninsula, the US ambassador to Seoul said Thursday.
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The United States manipulated intelligence on North Korea's nuclear program in a similar fashion to its use of weapons of mass destruction to justify the war on Iraq, a US foreign policy expert said in an article.
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North Korea said on Friday annual war  games staged by the United States and South Korea were  undermining six-party nuclear talks and forcing it to raise the  "quality and quantity" of its own military deterrent.
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The United States said it had "very good" talks with North Korea on Tuesday and it appeared that a deal on ending North Korea's nuclear ambitions was on track for now.
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North Korean and US officials met this week to discuss the nuclear standoff on the Korean Peninsula. It appears they came no closer to resuming multilateral
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North Korea's delegate to six-party talks on its nuclear weapons program said on Friday there had been agreement on some issues with the United States.
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North Korea demanded bilateral talks with the United States over its nuclear weapons program but Washington quickly rejected the idea on Friday and insisted Pyongyang return to six-party negotiations.
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North Korea boasted publicly for the first time Thursday that it has nuclear weapons and said it will stay away from disarmament talks, dramatically raising the stakes in the 2-year-old dispute. The Bush administration called on Pyongyang to give up its atomic aspirations so life can be better for its impoverished people.
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The United States on Tuesday held  out as a model for Iran a deal under which North Korea will  take steps toward giving up nuclear arms, and analysts said it  might bolster Iranians who favor talks with the West.
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BEIJING -- North Korea dramatically changed tack yesterday, announcing that it would return to the process of international negotiations over its nuclear ambitions and saying it would treat the United States "as a friend."
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The key players in international efforts to curb North Korea's nuclear ambitions are picking up the pace in what has become a protracted ritual of talking about talks and discussing how to entice the North's recalcitrant government back into negotiations.