Japan Delays Sanctioning North Korea
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Japan decided Friday to delay imposing economic sanctions on North Korea, a move the isolated communist nation had said it would consider a declaration of war.
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North Korea said on Thursday a planned visit by U.N. nuclear monitors was on hold because it had not received unfrozen bank funds, shaking hopes Pyongyong would start disabling its atom bomb program soon.
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North Korea warned that it would slow work to disable its main nuclear complex at Yongbyon, north of Pyongyang, because of delays in deliveries of aid.
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Japan circulated a new draft Security Council resolution Friday that retains the threat of sanctions against North Korea, ignoring Chinese and Russian fears of inflaming tensions with the isolated communist nation.
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Japan has urged the United Nations not to back down over North Korea&#039;s missile tests just because of strong opposition from China to a draft resolution that could lead to sanctions.
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South Korea on Friday delayed a full resumption of aid shipments to North Korea until the communist regime shuts down its main atomic reactor
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North Korea called off scheduled talks with Japan in Hanoi set for Wednesday afternoon and aimed at normalising relations between the two countries, an official at Pyongyang's embassy said.
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Japan urged North Korea on Wednesday to comply with its international obligations amid reports the two countries had canceled an afternoon session of talks to establish diplomatic relations
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The United States, South Korea and Japan have agreed to suspend work on the construction of nuclear reactors in North Korea for a second year but stopped short of scrapping the project, a Japanese newspaper said on Monday.
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North Korea threatened on Friday to take   "stronger physical actions" after Japan imposed punitive   measures in response to its barrage of missile tests and pushed   for international sanctions at the United Nations.
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Japan has admitted it would refuse to fund any deal on ending North Korea's nuclear ambitions without clear progress in a bilateral row over the communist state's abductions of Japanese nationals.
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Japan stood by its refusal to give aid to North Korea on Tuesday unless Pyongyang settles a feud over Japanese kidnapped decades ago, adding a new twist to this week's talks on ending the North's nuclear arms program.
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Japan will ask North Korea to relaunch probes into the fate of Japanese citizens it abducted after false evidence presented earlier led to calls for sanctions against the communist state, reports said.
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Japan on Tuesday warned it would consider sanctions against North Korea after accusing the communist country of failing to properly investigate the fates of Japanese citizens it kidnapped years ago.
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Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura said on Sunday North Korea should realize that time was running out before Japan and the international community would begin discussing slapping it with economic sanctions.
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North Korea may slow the pace of disablement of its nuclear facilities, blaming a delay in the delivery of energy aid promised under a disarmament deal, Kyodo news agency reported, quoting a Pyongyang official.
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North Korea on Sunday accused Japan of using anti-terrorism moves as an excuse for militarism which put the Korean peninsula at risk of invasion.