US chief negotiator on surprise NKorea visit
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US negotiator Christopher Hill flew to North Korea at Pyongyang&#39;s invitation Thursday to push for swift progress on nuclear disarmament, the most senior US official to visit in nearly five years.
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A US team of experts is travelling to North Korea to discuss ways to disable the country's nuclear programme.
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The top US negotiator predicted Saturday that North Korea will shut its nuclear reactor within three weeks and that foreign ministers will meet in July to discuss the next steps in disarming Pyongyang.
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The new U.S. lead negotiator for six-party talks on North Korean nuclear programs Tuesday stressed diplomacy to defuse the crisis as Seoul pledged the status quo on its policy of engagement with the communist state.
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North Korea on Friday proposed direct military talks with the United States, ahead of scheduled six-party talks concerning Pyongyang's nuclear arms program.
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The chief of the U.N. nuclear watchdog held the agency's first negotiations with North Korea in more than four years in Pyongyang on Wednesday but was told the North's top nuclear negotiator was too busy to meet him.
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A US State Department expert visited North Korea Wednesday to review work on disabling its key nuclear plants, the US embassy said.
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The United States and North Korea began landmark talks on establishing diplomatic relations, but a State Department official cautioned against high expectations during this week's meetings.
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Senior envoys from the US and North Korea are to meet in Geneva to discuss ways of normalising relations.
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The chief nuclear negotiators of North Korea and the United States are planning to visit each other's capital soon, a diplomatic source in Seoul was quoted as saying in a South Korean news report on Thursday.
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The top U.S. nuclear envoy Christopher  Hill will visit North Korea, a diplomatic source in Tokyo said  on Thursday.
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U.S. chief negotiator on North Korea  said on Friday the next round of six-party talks on Pyongyang's  nuclear program could take place in the next few weeks,  Itar-Tass news agency reported.
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US special envoy Joseph DeTrani will visit South Korea and Japan on the nuclear issue of the Democratic People&#39;s Republic of Korea (DPRK), State Department deputy spokesman Adam Ereli said at a briefing on Tuesday.
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SEOUL -- International efforts to shut down North Korea's nuclear program took a surprise turn yesterday when the United States altered course, sending a key official to Pyongyang for direct talks with the communist country.
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The head of the UN atomic watchdog warned Monday against expecting quick breakthroughs in the North Korean nuclear crisis as he prepared for a landmark visit to the isolated Stalinist state.
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A senior U.S. official may meet his North Korean counterpart in Beijing this week as diplomats prepare for six-party talks on ending Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions, the State Department said on Monday.
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The assistant US secretary of state holds "useful and positive" talks in Pyongyang.