U.S. urges North Korea to stop haggling
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Washington urged North Korea on Monday to stop haggling and seal a deal on ending its nuclear arms ambitions after six-party talks snagged on Pyongyang's demand for energy aid worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
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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 wants bilateral nuclear talks  with the United States but would rejoin stalled six-party  meetings at once if Washington dropped its "hostile policy"  toward Pyongyang, the communist state said on Friday.
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A top South Korean official on Sunday urged the United States to engage diplomatically with North Korea to resolve a dispute over the North's nuclear weapons program, comparing such a policy to President Nixon's decision to recognize China in the 1970s.
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North Korea will not abandon its  nuclear weapons until the United States gives up what Pyongyang  regards as a "hostile" policy toward it and drops financial  sanctions, its envoy to nuclear talks said on Saturday.
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North Korea called on Friday for military talks with the United States for peace and security on the peninsula, with Washington saying it can discuss a peace treaty after Pyongyang abandons its nuclear arms program.
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The United States demanded Tuesday that North Korea come clean about its highly enriched uranium program despite indications that US intelligence overstated Pyongyang's efforts to pursue such a program.
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The Bush administration is trying to keep a lid on growing frustration over faltering talks to rid North Korea of nuclear weapons as criticism surfaces from hardliners in the wings, experts say.
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North Korea will not abandon its nuclear weapons until the United States gives up what Pyongyang regards as a "hostile" policy toward it and drops financial sanctions, its envoy to nuclear talks said on Saturday.
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The United States rejected North Korea's  conditions for a resumption of six-party talks on scrapping its  nuclear programs, a response to Pyongyang's latest demands that  left the two nations in a stalemate.
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North Korea, which has boycotted  six-party talks about its nuclear program since last November,  will not get a better deal even after a change of the Bush  administration, a U.S. envoy to the talks said on Monday.
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The United States does not pose a threat to North Korea and has no intention of invading, a U.S. official said Tuesday, urging Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear ambitions in exchange for possible security assurances.
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Top U.S. nuclear negotiator Christopher Hill on Tuesday rebuffed North Korea's claim that Washington has agreed to remove Pyongyang from a list of states that sponsor terrorism, Japan's Kyodo news agency reported.
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SEOUL -- Secretary of State Colin L. Powell yesterday sought to fend off complaints from key partners in the effort to end North Korea's nuclear programs that the Bush administration has not been sufficiently creative or willing to compromise in the negotiations.
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The Bush administration, chafing under North Korea's retreat from multilateral talks on nuclear disarmament, sought Thursday to push Pyongyang back to the bargaining table and warned that it faces increasing international isolation.
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After months of mixed signals, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il says his country has nuclear weapons. Here's how the U.S. hopes to persuade him to give them up
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New York - North Korea sought &quot;several billion dollars&quot; in cash from the US during bilateral missile talks during former President Bill Clinton&amp;apos;s administration in exchange for halting its missile exports, the Kyodo news agency reported on Sunday