North Korea sets conditions for return to talks
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PRETORIA/BEIJING  - North Korea, vilified in the   West for its missile tests, said on Tuesday it was willing to   return to six-party talks on its nuclear program if the United   States dropped financial sanctions.
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North Korea is committed to holding  six-party talks aimed at resolving the crisis over its nuclear  weapons program, but has not indicated when it will return to  negotiations, British Foreign Office minister Bill Rammell said  on Tuesday.
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BEIJING, Feb. 8 -- Six-nation talks on dismantling North Korea's nuclear weapons program resumed Thursday, buoyed by signs North Korea is ready to return to serious negotiations.
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North Korea made clear on Saturday it  would not return to six-party talks on its nuclear programs  until President Bush assembled his new team and Washington  decided its policy toward Pyongyang.
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North Korea remains committed to using  six-party talks to defuse a crisis over its nuclear weapons  programs, but only if certain conditions are met, a U.N.  official said on Monday after visiting the reclusive state.
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The White House urged North Korea to return to talks aimed at defusing a dispute over Pyongyang's nuclear programs, calling such activities "a threat to global peace."
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N and S Korea agree to resume ministerial talks, a day after a nuclear disarmament deal was reached.
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North Korea said on Saturday it would not  return to six-party talks on its nuclear program until  President Bush spelled out the policies of his second term in  office.
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North Korea will find it difficult to return to nuclear talks if the United States keeps insisting that Pyongyang renounce peaceful as well as military atomic activities, the North&#39;s main newspaper said on Tuesday.
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North Korea wants to restart six-party talks on its nuclear programs urgently but still wants certain conditions met, a top U.N. official told South Korea's Yonhap news agency on Thursday.
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North Korea wants bilateral nuclear talks with the United States but would rejoin stalled six-party immediately if Washington dropped what it called its "hostile policy" toward Pyongyang, the communist state said on Friday.
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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 North Korean official has flagged the resumption of multilateral talks over the country&#39;s efforts to develop nuclear weapons.
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North Korea is ready to return to talks on ending its nuclear weapons program but still had difficult issues to iron out with the United States, Pyongyang's top envoy said on Tuesday.
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Talks on North Korea's nuclear programs resumed on a positive note Thursday, with the Chinese hosts distributing a draft agreement and the North agreeing in principle to initial steps to disarm.
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The White House said on Wednesday it was hopeful North Korea would return very soon to six-party nuclear talks and that the proposal it made last year should be the starting point to resolve the crisis.
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North Korea says it is committed to  resolving the nuclear crisis through six-party talks, a Chinese  Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said on Tuesday, appearing to  reverse statements out of Pyongyang over recent months.