North Korea Comes Back to the Table
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The U.S. and North Korea are talking again, but will Pyongyang keep its promise to abandon nuclear weapons?
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Four years ago this weekend, then-Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright visited North Korea, in what appeared to be a breakthrough in US relations with the reclusive Stalinist government.
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: South Korea today expressed frustration over North Korea&#39;s reluctance to resume talks on its nuclear weapons programme, but said it was important to encourage the communist state to return to negotiations rather than impose sanctions.
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SEOUL -- North Korea set three conditions yesterday to be met before it would consider returning to six-party talks on its nuclear programs.
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There are three problems with the six-party talks on North Korea&#39;s nuclear issue. First, they risk confusing form with substance: as if merely getting North Korea around a table is success
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Negotiating with North Korea is rarely anything but bumpy. But in recent months, Japan once got close to getting Pyongyang&#39;s commitment to rejoin the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT)-but Tokyo blew it.
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A ship with heavy fuel oil provided by the United States was headed to North Korea Monday as nations involved in disarmament talks resumed talks on energy aid for the communist country.
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The key players in international efforts to curb North Korea's nuclear ambitions are picking up the pace in what has become a protracted ritual of talking about talks and discussing how to entice the North's recalcitrant government back into negotiations.
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North Korea has relied on its trademark brinksmanship strategy in international negotiations on its nuclear program, often lacing its speeches with threats, accusations and unreasonable demands.
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BEIJING, Dec. 18 -- Long-stalled negotiations on dismantling North Korea's nuclear weapons program resumed Monday in an atmosphere of pessimism, with North Korea insisting it must be regarded as a nuclear power and the United States demanding swift action to make the Korean Peninsula nuclear-free.
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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 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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China will try to nudge North Korea to resume stalled talks on ending its nuclear programmes when Pyongyang&#39;s number two leader visits on Monday, but economic issues will also be high on the agenda.
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A U.S. Congressional delegation met North Korean officials Thursday in an effort to persuade the communist regime to rejoin six-party talks over halting its nuclear weapons programs.
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UN inspectors return to North Korea this week for the first time in five years, but the reclusive state is likely to exact a higher price for its disarmament than first envisaged, analysts say.
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Nuclear envoys have returned to Beijing to resume six-nation talks aimed at pressing North Korea to abandon its atomic weapons, in what delegates said could be a watershed moment in the four-year process.
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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.