N.Korea urges "initial actions" on nuclear deal
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-il said on Tuesday each party should take "initial actions" in an aid-for-disarmament deal, China's Xinhua news agency reported amid signs Pyongyang was preparing to shut down its main nuclear plant.
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North Korea is committed to a disarmament pact reached in February but wants sanctions against it lifted first, the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Wednesday on his return from a trip he said had cleared the air.
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The White House on Tuesday said the six-party deal on North Korea's nuclear program was an important first step toward Pyongyang's denuclearization.
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Envoys to North Korean disarmament talks began gathering Wednesday, and the chief U.S. negotiator said he expected "hard bargaining" over new proposals to get the North to abandon its nuclear programs
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North Korea said on Friday it had given an account of its nuclear arms program as required in an international disarmament deal, while separately threatening to boost "war deterrent".
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Six-party talks aimed at dismantling North Korea's nuclear program start in Beijing on Thursday, with a Japanese newspaper reporting that the isolated state has already signed a memorandum with the United States.
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North Korea warned Japan on Wednesday  that it would treat economic sanctions as a "declaration of  war" and threatened to try to exclude Tokyo from six-party  talks on Pyongyang's nuclear arms programs.
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North Korea said on Friday it had already given an account of its nuclear arms program as required under an international disarmament deal, while separately threatening to boost its "war deterrent".
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North Korea said on Friday it had already accounted for its nuclear arms program as required under an international disarmament deal -- an assertion quickly rejected by the United States, which urged Pyongyang to produce a declaration soon.
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North Korea said on Tuesday it would conduct its first nuclear test, prompting the United States, France and Japan to urge the U.N. Security Council to respond to what Washington called "an unacceptable threat" to world peace.
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North Korea set three conditions on  Friday to be met before it would consider returning to  six-party talks on its nuclear programs.
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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 programme.
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The U.S. and its allies urged North Korea to act on its pledge to start dismantling its nuclear program after frozen money that had been Pyongyang's main condition to disarm was on its way Friday to the communist nation's accounts.
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North Korea is committed to a disarmament agreement reached in February but wants sanctions against it lifted first, the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Wednesday on return from the reclusive communist state.
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North Korea wants urgently to restart six-party talks on its nuclear programmes, but is still demanding certain conditions be met, a top UN official has told South Korea&#39;s Yonhap news agency.
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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 said on Tuesday it would conduct a nuclear test in the future but would never use atomic weapons first and remained committed to the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, Pyongyang's KCNA news agency reported.