Get out of nuclear business, U.S. tells North Korea
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The United States urged reclusive North  Korea on Thursday to get out of the nuclear business and rejoin  a treaty that aims to curb the spread of nuclear weapons.
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North Korea agrees to shut down its Yongbyon nuclear reactor within three weeks, US envoy  says.
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Pacific Rim Bureau  - The US government has called on North Korea to stop boasting about its nuclear deterrent and return to talks aimed at resolving the drawn-out crisis sparked by its violations of international agreements.
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North Korea says it plans to unload   fuel rods from its nuclear reactor to process plutonium in an   attempt to pressure the United States into bilateral talks, a   U.S. scholar just back from Pyongyang said on Saturday.
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Top U.S. nuclear negotiator Christopher Hill said on Tuesday North Korea needs to do more to dismantle its nuclear program before it can be removed from the list of states that sponsor terrorism, Japan's Kyodo news agency reported.
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North Korea confirmed Sunday that it had shut down its Yongbyon atomic reactor under UN supervision, the first step in a process designed to rid the communist state of nuclear weapons.
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North Korea confirmed it has shut its nuclear reactor that provides the secretive state with material to make weapons-grade plutonium, China's Xinhua news agency quoted a North Korean official as saying on Sunday.
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The United States urged North Korea Tuesday to stop boasting about its nuclear weapons capability and return to the negotiating table to resolve the nuclear crisis in the Korean peninsula.
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Washington urged North Korea on Monday to stop haggling and seal a deal on ending its nuclear arms ambitions after six-party talks snagged on Pyongyang's demand for energy aid worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
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North Korea has told the United States it has shut down a nuclear reactor as part of a disarmament deal, the State Department said on Saturday after a team of U.N. nuclear inspectors arrived in Pyongyang.
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North Korea has told the United  States it has shut down a nuclear reactor as part of a  disarmament deal, the U.S. State Department said on Saturday  after a team of U.N. nuclear inspectors arrived in Pyongyang.
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North Korea says it has turned the plutonium from 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods into nuclear weapons to serve as a deterrent against increasing U.S. nuclear threats and to prevent a nuclear war in northeast Asia.
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North Korea said Sunday it is ready to permanently disable the nuclear reactor it just turned off if the United States lifts economic sanctions on the impoverished nation and strikes it from a list of terrorism sponsors.
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North Korea has a three-week deadline from now to shut down its Yongbyon nuclear reactor, top U.S. nuclear envoy Christopher Hill said on Saturday.
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US President George W Bush has issued a blunt message to North Korea, saying it must abandon its reported nuclear weapons programme.
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The United States expects North Korea to shut down the reactor at the heart of its atomic arms development within about three weeks, top U.S. nuclear envoy Christopher Hill said on Saturday.
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The United States urged North Korea on  Monday to stop haggling and just close a deal on giving up  nuclear arms, after six-country talks snagged on Pyongyang's  demands for energy aid worth hundreds of millions of dollars.