North Korea ready to stop making plutonium: Seoul
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North Korea appears ready to abandon the source of its weapons-grade plutonium but there is a still a long way to go before Pyongyang scraps its entire nuclear arms program, a top South Korean nuclear envoy said on Friday.
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North Korea has already turned its stockpile of spent nuclear fuel into nuclear weapons, an official has told the United Nations as the isolated country baulks at further disarmament talks.
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South Korea's top nuclear negotiator urged North Korea Monday to "have the courage to tell the truth" about its suspected enriched uranium programme, which is slowing down a landmark disarmament process.
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North Korea says it has turned the plutonium from 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods into nuclear weapons to serve as a deterrent against increasing U.S. nuclear threats and to prevent a nuclear war in northeast Asia.
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SEOUL, South Korea - Denying it has any nuclear weapons ambitions, South Korea insisted yesterday that a one-time uranium enrichment test by its scientists will not derail US-led efforts to dismantle rival North Korea&#39;s nuclear programs.
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South Korea declared Saturday it has no plans to develop or possess nuclear weapons, but said it would pursue scientific atomic research transparently in cooperation with the U.N. nuclear watchdog.
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North Korea could start disabling its plants that make weapons-grade plutonium as early as next week as a part of a disarmament-for-aid deal the reclusive state struck with regional powers, a news report said on Monday.
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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.
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South Korea Monday shrugged off North  Korean criticism of the South's experiments with nuclear  materials as familiar posturing that would not rule out the  mercurial communist North's return to atomic arms talks.
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North Korea said on Saturday it will not abandon its nuclear programmes until the United States gives up what Pyongyang regards as a "hostile" policy toward it and drops financial restrictions imposed last year.
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UNITED NATIONS, New York North Korea says its effort to produce plutonium for nuclear weapons is meant to serve as a deterrent against increasing US nuclear threats and to prevent a nuclear war in northeast Asia.
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MOSCOW, November 15 (RIA Novosti) - South Korea has stockpiled roughly a thousand nuclear warheads to be endangering peace and security in the entire Korean Peninsula for several decades now, North Korea says in a statement.
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North Korea said Monday that it will not give up nuclear development in light of unauthorized nuclear experiments by South Korea, where U.N. inspectors nuclear inspectors were conducting an investigation.
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North Korea has agreed to wide-ranging U.N. measures to verify a shutdown of its atom bomb program, nuclear inspectors said on Tuesday, but doubts arose about when disarmament would begin.
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North Korea offered to meet a U.S. request that it declare and disable its nuclear programs by the end of the year, South Korea said Wednesday, indicating its will to comply with a disarmament pledge after shutting down its sole operating reactor.
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UNITED NATIONS -- The Bush administration responded calmly yesterday to North Korean statements it has turned the plutonium from 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods into nuclear weapons.
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North Korea plans to seal its nuclear reactor, the source of weapons-grade plutonium, in the second half of July, Russia's Interfax news agency quoted an unidentified North Korean diplomatic source as saying on Monday.