U.N., U.S. exchange accusations on North Korea program
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The United States suspects that about $3 million in U.N. Development Program funds may have been diverted by North Korea to buy property in Britain, Canada and France, allegations denied by the agency.
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The United States and its military allies on Thursday challenged UN Secretary General Kofi Annan&#39;s statement that last year&#39;s invasion of Iraq was an illegal act that violated
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UNITED NATIONS -- Over the past six months, the Bush administration has repeatedly criticized the U.N. Development Program for channeling millions of dollars in hard currency into North Korea to finance the agency's programs, warning that the money might be diverted to  Pyongyang's nuclear weapons...
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North Korea has demanded bilateral talks with the United States to defuse tension created by its announcement that it is a nuclear power, the communist state's U.N. envoy said in a South Korean newspaper interview published Friday.
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There are many unanswered questions  about North Korea&#39;s nuclear programs, Secretary of State  Condoleezza Rice said on Sunday ahead of fresh talks this week  on ending Pyongyang&#39;s nuclear ambitions.
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Talks and fuel aid aimed at coaxing  North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons program could move  ahead in coming weeks, the U.S. nuclear envoy said on Sunday,  welcoming Pyongyang&#39;s invitation to U.N. inspectors.
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The US says North Korea has failed to provide all the information about its nuclear programme as agreed.
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North Korea on Sunday stepped up anti-US propaganda with a six-nation nuclear disarmament process bogged down and Pyongyang and Washington in dispute over the delay.
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The United States has compelling  evidence North Korea has a uranium-based nuclear weapons  program and ending this activity is essential to resolving the  nuclear dispute with Pyongyang, according to two key former  U.S. officials.
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North Korea has again denied running a clandestine program to enrich uranium for weapons, long suspected by the United States, a top U.S. nuclear envoy said on Wednesday.
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A U.N. human rights expert called on North Korea on Friday to give its citizens more freedoms and overhaul its administration of justice, but the North insisted it does not violate human rights and accused the United States and the European Union of perpetrating "slanderous allegations" to isolate it.
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The Bush administration's tactics for disarming North Korea are not working, two key U.S. supporters of talks with Pyongyang told Secretary of State Colin Powell this week. But the administration is downplaying a rift with its partners on the sensitive issue &#151; which has been a subject of repeated sparring by President Bush and Democratic opponent John Kerry.
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U.S. and North Korean officials held talks on Monday aimed at eventually normalizing diplomatic ties as part of an agreement under which Pyongyang has pledged to scrap its nuclear arms programs in exchange for aid.
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North Korea on Tuesday accused the administration of US President George W. Bush of using a dispute over its nuclear weapons program to gain votes in next week&#39;s presidential election.
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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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The United States accused North Korea  Tuesday of miscalculation by refusing to resume talks on its  nuclear programs before the U.S. presidential election while  China renewed a diplomatic drive to end the stalemate.
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North Korea boasted publicly for the first time Thursday that it has nuclear weapons and said it will stay away from disarmament talks, dramatically raising the stakes in the 2-year-old dispute. The Bush administration called on Pyongyang to give up its atomic aspirations so life can be better for its impoverished people.