US reacts calmly to North Korea saying it created nuclear weapons
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STATE DEPARTMENT A calm response from the Bush administration to claims by North Korean that it has turned the plutonium from eight-thousand spent nuclear fuel rods into nuclear weapons.
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North Korea has responded to a personal letter from President Bush, saying Pyongyang will meet its obligations under a disarmament-for-aid deal and expects the U.S. to do the same, White House officials said Friday.
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Excerpts from an English-language statement released Thursday by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on its nuclear weapons program and relations with the United States. The North Korean government refers to the country as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, or the DPRK.
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US officials are cautious at reports that North Korea is ready to rejoin talks on its nuclear weapons programme.
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The United States welcomed the prospect of six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear weapons program on the sidelines of an ASEAN meeting next week, as momentum appeared to gather for seizing the opportunity.
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The United States was not making "a lethal threat" when an envoy warned North Korea that it could not have both a future and a nuclear weapon, the White House said on Thursday.
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The United States on Friday disputed North Korean claims that Pyongyang had handed over a list of its nuclear programs ahead of a year-end disarmament deadline. Despite the North's charges of U.S. obstruction, the State Department expressed confidence that the process was moving ahead.
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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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North Korea has been trying to ease American fears of a secret atomic weapons programme and also denies sharing nuclear technology with other countries, the US pointman on the issue said Wednesday.
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North Korea boasted publicly for the first time Thursday that it has nuclear weapons and said it will stay away from disarmament talks, dramatically raising the stakes in the 2-year-old dispute. The Bush administration called on Pyongyang to give up its atomic aspirations so life can be better for its impoverished people.
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The Bush administration said Tuesday that North Korea&#039;s firing of a series of missiles into the Sea of Japan was a provocation, but not an immediate threat to the United States.
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North Korea lashed the United States on  Friday for conducting an arms race and, far from announcing  plans to dismantle its nuclear weapons program, warned that it  would &quot;bolster its deterrent for self-defence.&quot;
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President George W. Bush on Tuesday said he was pleased with the six-party agreement reached with North Korea on its nuclear program.
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UNITED NATIONS - 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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UNITED NATIONS - North Korea has turned the enriched uranium from 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods into weapons to serve as a deterrent against a possible nuclear strike by the United States, a North Korean minister said on Monday.
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North Korea declared on Thursday for the  first time it possessed nuclear weapons and pulled out  indefinitely from six-party talks on its atomic ambitions,  saying it needed a defense against a hostile United States.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell says the United States believes a recent explosion in North Korea was, in his words, not a nuclear event.