U.S. says hurdle blocks North Korea talks
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Six-way talks on ending North Korea's nuclear program resumed on Saturday with a dim promise of progress, but envoys remained cautious as the United States spoke of at least one hurdle in the way.
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North Korea was reluctant to accept a United States plan to give up its nuclear program but would probably attend the next round of talks on the impasse, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said after a brief visit to Pyongyang.
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Efforts to drive North Korea back to stalled nuclear talks are in big trouble, the top US negotiator has said after meeting a senior Chinese official to try and forge a breakthrough.
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North Korean and US officials met this week to discuss the nuclear standoff on the Korean Peninsula. It appears they came no closer to resuming multilateral talks on ending Pyongyang&#39;s nuclear weapons programs.
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Washington urged North Korea on Monday to stop haggling and seal a deal on ending its nuclear arms ambitions after six-party talks snagged on Pyongyang's demand for energy aid worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
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BEIJING -- A last-minute snag yesterday over the amount and timing of assistance to North Korea dampened hopes at six-nation talks for a landmark deal aimed at locking Pyongyang into firm steps toward nuclear disarmament.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza  Rice said on Tuesday Washington would not set a deadline to  reach a deal in six-party talks on North Korea but made clear  next week's negotiations must not be held just for the sake of  talking.
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By acknowledging doubts about what it knows of North Korea's uranium enrichment program, the United States aims to set the record straight and ease resolution of an issue that has been a key obstacle to a nuclear agreement since 2002, U.S. officials and experts say.
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Negotiators on North Korea's nuclear programs engaged in intense diplomacy Saturday to resolve remaining hurdles to a deal that would see the communist state take its first real steps to disarm.
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US officials believe the next round of talks with North Korea over its suspect nuclear program will only be delayed by a week, the State Department said Wednesday.
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Talks to end North Korea's nuclear arms ambitions on Thursday veered away from setting a deadline for the next phase of disarmament but settled on a set of tasks the United States said could be carried out this year.
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U.S. and North Korean diplomats failed to reach an agreement Wednesday on when to resume six-nation talks on Pyongyang's disputed nuclear program, but stressed their commitment to moving the process forward.
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North Korea called Wednesday for direct talks with the United States over a potential missile test, but the Bush administration rejected the overture, saying threats aren&#039;t the way to seek dialogue.
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The U.S. envoy to stalled North Korea nuclear talks says the United States will not tolerate a nuclear North Korea and has warned Pyongyang not to test a nuclear weapon.
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The U.S. State Department denied on  Wednesday that its top negotiator with North Korea sought to  contact Pyongyang while on a recent trip to Asia.
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The United States on Friday rejected  North Korea's demands for direct talks over its nuclear weapons  program and insisted on six-party negotiations.
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Any steps agreed on by North Korea at talks this week on ending its nuclear arms program should be carried out within three months, but the talks in Beijing won't resolve everything, U.S. envoy Christopher Hill said on Tuesday.