North Koreans Say They Hold Nuclear Arms
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The announcement sent China, the U.S. and its allies to debate whether diplomatic efforts could be resuscitated.
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Excerpts from an English-language statement released Thursday by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on its nuclear weapons program and relations with the United States. The North Korean government refers to the country as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, or the DPRK.
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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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South Korea reacted with shock and suspicion on Friday to the first declaration from the reclusive North that it had nuclear weapons and had pulled out indefinitely from six-party disarmament talks.
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North Korea said it may be willing to give up its nuclear weapons as fresh six-nation talks began here amid warnings that four years of tough diplomacy on Pyongyang was at a crossroads.
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North Korea is to conduct a nuclear test, the foreign ministry says in a statement.
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North Korea said on Friday it had given an account of its nuclear arms program as required in an international disarmament deal, while separately threatening to boost "war deterrent".
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North Korea appears to have bought a complete nuclear weapon from either Pakistan or a former Soviet Union state, a South Korean newspaper said on Thursday quoting a source in Washington.
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North Korea will not dismantle its nuclear programs or improve ties with South Korea until questions about the South's nuclear experiments are clearly answered, Pyongyang said on Sunday.
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North Korea's declaration that it  possesses nuclear weapons does not make it a nuclear weapons  state, South Korea's unification minister said on Monday.
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A top North Korean official has told U.S.  legislators that the communist state possessed nuclear weapons,  Radio Free Asia reported on Friday.
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North Korea has not changed its mind about ending its nuclear programme, leader Kim Jong-il reportedly says.
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North Korea is willing to take initial steps toward ending its nuclear arms program, South Korean officials said on Thursday after the opening of six-country talks in Beijing.
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WASHINGTON -- North Korea declared yesterday for the first time that it has produced nuclear weapons and said it is quitting six-nation talks on arms control, sending the Bush administration and its allies scrambling to rescue a two-year-old diplomatic strategy to halt Pyongyang's arms program.
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North Korea wants the standoff over its nuclear weapons program resolved in order to forge better ties with the United States, South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun said Friday.
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South Korea's top policymaker on North  Korea said Monday North Korea's claim to have nuclear weapons  was unproven and Seoul's controversial engagement policy with  the North would remain, at least for now.
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North Korea will never dismantle its  nuclear arsenal and will not resume talks on its atomic  programs unless the United States drops its hostile policy, the  North's official KCNA news agency said on Saturday.