U.N. Downplays S. Korean Nuke Experiments
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South Korean nuclear experiments revealed earlier this year produced minute amounts of weapons-grade uranium and plutonium, but there was no evidence linking them to an attempt to make weapons, the U.N. atomic watchdog agency said Thursday.
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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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South Koreaâs Foreign Affairs-Trade Ministry is stepping up efforts to dispel foreign suspicions over a controversial uranium enrichment experiment by Korean scientists in 2000.
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When the South Korean government admitted last month that scientists at its state-run research centers conducted experiments in plutonium extraction in the early 1980s and uranium enrichment tests in 2000, the international community decried the incidents
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There&#39;s no evidence South Korea was trying to make nuclear weapons when 14 of its scientists secretly produced enriched uranium and plutonium without government approval, the United Nations nuclear watchdog said.
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The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said Monday that South Korea's failure to report nuclear experiments was a "matter of serious concern" as Western diplomats revealed a link between tests conducted in 2000 and Seoul's secret uranium work in the 1980s.
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SEOUL -- Denying it has any nuclear weapons ambitions, South Korea insisted yesterday that a one-time uranium enrichment test by its scientists will not derail US-led efforts to dismantle rival North Korea's nuclear programs.
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BEIJING - South Korea and the US yesterday sought to play down fears that North Korea might have conducted a nuclear test after reports of a large explosion in the northern part of the communist country.
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The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said Sunday he does not believe North Korea set off a nuclear blast earlier this month, but is not "100 percent sure."
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South Korea welcomed on Saturday the U.N. nuclear watchdog's decision not to refer Seoul's atomic experiments to the Security Council and said is should not affect nuclear talks with North Korea.
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North Korea ruled out on Thursday any  multi-party talks on its nuclear weapons programs until South  Korea's recently disclosed past atomic experiments have been  fully explained.
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VIENNA South Korean nuclear experiments that were revealed earlier this year produced minute amounts of plutonium and near-weapons-grade uranium but there was no evidence linking them to an attempt to make nuclear arms, the UN atomic monitoring agency said
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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 UN's nuclear watchdog expresses "serious concern" at South Korea's secret nuclear research.
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North Korea said on Tuesday it would conduct a nuclear test in the future but would never use atomic weapons first and remained committed to the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, Pyongyang's KCNA news agency reported.
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The United States said that its warnings to North Korea against conducting a nuclear weapons test were &quot;not a lethal threat&quot; and denied seeking the collapse of the regime in Pyongyang.
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North Korea refuses to resume   six-nation talks on ending its nuclear arms program because of   unilateral U.S. actions, a senior North Korean official told   the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday.