Seoul says North Korea bank issue nearly over
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Negotiations to transfer North Korean funds held at a Macau bank, central to the reclusive state moving on a nuclear disarmament deal, are in their final stages, South Korea's foreign minister said on Wednesday.
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North Korea agreed in weekend talks with  the United States to fully account for and disable its nuclear  programs by the end of this year, negotiators said on Sunday.
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South Korea says it has seen no sign of the North shutting its nuclear facility, a key part of last month's landmark deal.
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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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North Korea denies that portraits of Kim Jong-il have been taken down from public places.
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A cloud of confusion surrounded a widely  reported explosion in North Korea last week with South Korea  saying on Friday its latest assessment was that no blast at all  occurred at the suspected site.
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Talks aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear weapons ambitions ended in Beijing on Friday with no deadline to disable the country's atomic facilities.
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North Korea said on Monday that the standoff over frozen funds had been resolved and it would now start implementing a nuclear disarmament deal struck in February.
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South Korea said on Friday it did not expect a shock declaration that government scientists enriched uranium four years ago to upset international efforts to end North Korea's nuclear ambitions.
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The banking dispute holding up a North Korean nuclear weapons deal looked on Friday to be almost resolved but few expected it to prompt the hermit state to actually start dismantling its atomic armory any time soon.
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North Korea has agreed to fully account for and disable its nuclear program by the end of this year, the top U.S. nuclear negotiator said on Sunday.
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Most of the North Korean funds long  frozen in a Macau bank have been transferred, an official said  on Thursday, raising the prospect of an end to the deadlock  stalling a nuclear disarmament deal with Pyongyang.
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Chief envoys to six-nation talks aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear weapons programme clinched a deal at the end of marathon negotiations, a South Korean official said.
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North Korea will soon receive the funds which for months had blocked a nuclear disarmament deal and should move quickly to honour the pact, a senior South Korean official said Friday.
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South Korea's president approved an independent probe of his successor Wednesday over financial fraud allegations that have cast a cloud over the incoming conservative's landslide election win.
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The announcement signaled an end to a wrenching hostage crisis that had gripped South Korea for almost six weeks.
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South Korea has shrugged off North Korean criticism of the South&#39;s experiments with nuclear materials as familiar posturing that would not rule out the mercurial communist North&#39;s return to atomic arms talks.