Britain begins 'long haul' to make North Korea come clean on nukes
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Britain's first mission to Pyongyang will be the start of a &quot;very long haul&quot; to persuade North Korea to come clean on its nuclear weapons programs, its junior foreign minister for Asia said.
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Intense diplomatic efforts are under way to persuade North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons programme.
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NORTH Korea yesterday agreed to let a British diplomat visit the site of a massive explosion which Pyongyang said was caused by the planned demolition of a mountain for a hydroelectric project.
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Britain is awaiting the findings from a technical analysis of what a group of diplomats saw at the site of a huge explosion in North Korea last week, Britain's minister for East Asia said.
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In a small softening of relations between North Korea and the west, it was announced yesterday that Bill Rammell of the Foreign Office is to become the first British minister to visit the communist state.
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âI can confirm British Ambassador, David Slinn and other foreign diplomats (Sweden, Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Russia and Mongolia) were today taken by North Korean officials to Samsu in the north-east of the country, where a hydro electric power
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We're going to begin with some pomp and ceremony in London where President Roh Moo-hyun has made history becoming the first South Korean leader to pay a state visit to Britain.
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North Korea is prepared to extend wide cooperation to the International Atomic Energy Agency in its mission to help shut down Pyongyang's weapons-capable nuclear facilities, an IAEA report made available Tuesday to The Associated Press suggests.
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U.N. nuclear watchdog officials visiting North Korea traveled on Thursday to a reactor complex that the secretive state has promised to mothball under an aid-for-disarmament deal, Kyodo news agency reported.
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The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog  said on Monday that moving to inspect and close facilities  behind North Korea's nuclear weapons program would be complex  as the two sides seek to rebuild severed ties.
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SEOUL, South Korea - A huge cloud that billowed up from North Korea several days ago was an intentional part of a planned demolition for a hydroelectric project, the BBC quoted the country's foreign minister as saying Monday.    Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun was responding to a request for information from British Foreign Office minister Bill Rammell, who is visiting Pyongyang, the British Broadcasting Corp...
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The U.N. nuclear watchdog's governing body agreed on Monday to send monitors to North Korea to verify a shutdown of its atomic bomb program, launching what is likely to be a long and arduous disarmament process.
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A team of U.N. nuclear watchdog officials visiting North Korea headed on Thursday for the Yongbyon nuclear plant that Pyongyang has promised to mothball under an aid-for-disarmament deal, Kyodo news agency reported.
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The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Monday that moving to inspect and close facilities behind North Korea's nuclear weapons program would be complex as the two sides seek to rebuild severed ties.
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_ North Korea said Monday that a huge cloud caused by an explosion several days ago was the planned demolition of a mountain for a hydroelectric project, and the reclusive government invited a British diplomat to visit the site to
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BEIJING, China -- North Korea is committed to holding six-party talks aimed at resolving the crisis over its nuclear weapons program, British Foreign Office minister Bill Rammell said Tuesday, Reuters reported.
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North Korea said Monday last week's  explosion in a remote northern area was part of a  hydro-electric project, the BBC quoted the North's foreign  minister as telling a visiting British official.