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 cautioned after closing a nuclear reactor that produces weapons-grade plutonium that further disarmament progress would require the United States and Japan to end "hostile policies."
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WASHINGTON -- The top US negotiator at North Korean nuclear talks said yesterday that the North's plutonium-producing reactor could be disabled by the end of the year. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill, just back from a trip to North Korea, also said top ministers from the six nations involved in the talks could meet late next month if progress ...
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The United States expects North Korea to  shut down the reactor at the heart of its atomic arms  development within about three weeks, top U.S. nuclear envoy  Christopher Hill said on Saturday.
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North Korea has shown no signs of  shutting down its main nuclear reactor and the source of its  weapons-grade plutonium since last month&#39;s deal calling for it  to be closed, South Korea&#39;s foreign minister said on Wednesday.
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With North Korea&#39;s nuclear tension in a 22-month impasse, Seoul is seeking to take on a more active role to resolve the issue.
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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 will shut down its controversial Yongbyon reactor very soon, probably within three weeks, the top U.S. nuclear envoy said in Tokyo on Saturday.
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South Korea's cooperation with the United Nations' nuclear watchdog over concerns about past atomic experiments should serve as an example to North Korea, the U.S. ambassador to Seoul said on Friday.
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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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A top North Korean official is quoted saying Pyongyang will not abandon nuclear weapons when it returns to talks.
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South Korea welcomes the UN Security Council's call on North Korea to abandon its nuclear test plans.
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South Korea must not conduct any more nuclear experiments without notifying the United Nations, because any secret nuclear activity, however small, is a matter of "serious concern," the U.N. nuclear chief said Sunday.
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UNITED NATIONS - 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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North Korea is willing to take initial  steps toward ending its nuclear arms program, South Korean  officials said after six-party talks opened on Thursday,  hinting at rare progress in talks which have ended in stalemate  for years.
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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 reported on Monday, citing an unidentified North Korean diplomatic source.
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South Korea&#39;s defense minister said  on Saturday he expects North Korea to begin to close its  nuclear reactor, the source of its weapons-grade plutonium,  once $25 million in frozen funds in a Macau bank are freed up.