U.S. says N.Korea nuclear talks at fork in the road
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The United States and Japan said there must be real progress when talks on scrapping North Korea's nuclear arms resume this week, warning Pyongyang that only sanctions and isolation lie down the other "fork in the road".
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The United States rejected North Korea's  conditions for a resumption of six-party talks on scrapping its  nuclear programs, a response to Pyongyang's latest demands that  left the two nations in a stalemate.
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A top U.S. diplomat said on Friday weekend talks between the United States and North Korea may signal whether the push to end Pyongyang's nuclear programs was beginning to gather speed.
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The United States showed some new flexibility in recent talks with North Korea on the nuclear issue but Pyongyang was unimpressed and is resisting participation in a new round of formal six-party negotiations, U.S. officials and experts said on Friday.
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North Korea ruled out Monday attending proposed six-way working-level talks on its nuclear arms programs and questioned the entire negotiating process, blaming hostile U.S. policy for Pyongyang's tougher stance.
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The prospects for more six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear programs are gloomy because the United States has pushed the negotiations to a stalemate, the North's official KCNA news agency said on Thursday.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell said on  Sunday there was still time to resolve a nuclear crisis with  North Korea through six-party talks despite Pyongyang's refusal  to resume the negotiations.
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A dispute over whether North Korea has given the U.S. details of its nuclear programs has become the latest hurdle in efforts to rid the North of its atomic arsenal.
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The U.S. envoy to six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear arms programme said on Sunday it was time to wrap things up and reach a resolution but South Korean and Japanese delegates held out little hope.
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North Korea and the United States stood poles apart on Monday as talks on scrapping the communist state's nuclear arms resumed after a year-long hiatus.
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North Korea, which has boycotted  six-party talks about its nuclear program since last November,  will not get a better deal even after a change of the Bush  administration, a U.S. envoy to the talks said on Monday.
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Talks aimed at dismantling North Korea's nuclear weapons program failed to reach agreement on Sunday, stalled on Pyongyang's demands for energy compensation and leaving one more day for negotiators to scramble for a deal.
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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 Pyongyang 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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The United States and North Korea held "lengthy and substantive" talks on Tuesday, offering a glimmer of hope that six-party negotiations aimed at dismantling the North's nuclear programs may yield progress.
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The U.S. envoy to six-party talks on  North Korea's nuclear arms program said on Sunday it was time  to wrap things up and reach a resolution but South Korean and  Japanese delegates held out little hope.
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The United States said on Saturday it has not set a deadline resumption of six-country talks on North Korea's nuclear program despite a seven month deadlock that has persuaded some officials negotiations are failing.
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North Korea is looking for an extended delay in resuming negotiations over its nuclear weapons program and even told China there was no point in continuing the six-sided talks at all, a senior U.S. official says.