Diplomats hopeful ahead of U.S.-North Korea talks
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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 and its negotiating partners are ready to resume talks with North Korea on its nuclear weapons program but North Korea has not agreed, a State Department spokesman said Thursday.
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The prospects of a thaw between North Korea and its bitterest foes brightened further on Wednesday as it went into talks with Japan after a meeting in New York that the United States' envoy described as "very good".
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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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Senior U.S. and North Korean officials plan to meet in Beijing on Wednesday as they try to prepare for fresh multilateral talks on ending Pyongyang's pursuit of nuclear arms, the State Department said on Tuesday.
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Talks and fuel aid aimed at coaxing  North Korea to carry out nuclear disarmament could move ahead  in coming weeks, the U.S. nuclear envoy said on Sunday,  welcoming Pyongyang&#39;s invitation to U.N. inspectors.
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Talks and fuel aid aimed at coaxing  North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons program could move  ahead in coming weeks, the U.S. nuclear envoy said on Sunday,  welcoming Pyongyang&#39;s invitation to U.N. inspectors.
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The United States and North Korea wrapped up historic talks on establishing diplomatic ties on an optimistic note Tuesday but the U.S. wants Pyongyang to "come clean" about any uranium enrichment program and eliminate all nuclear weapons before normalizing relations.
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US officials believe the next round of talks with North Korea over its suspect nuclear program will only be delayed by a week, the State Department said Wednesday.
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Envoys to North Korean disarmament talks began gathering Wednesday, and the chief U.S. negotiator said he expected "hard bargaining" over new proposals to get the North to abandon its nuclear programs.
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U.S. and South Korean envoys were due in Beijing on Monday to prepare for six-party talks on ending North Korea's nuclear weapons program which are expected to resume next month.
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U.S. and North Korean officials held talks on Monday aimed at eventually normalizing diplomatic ties as part of an agreement under which Pyongyang has pledged to scrap its nuclear arms programs in exchange for aid.
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Chief U.S. negotiator Chris Hill struck an optimistic note on Tuesday ahead of six-party talks on ending North Korea's nuclear arms program, saying they could agree on an ambitious disarmament schedule in coming days.
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North Korea is ready to return to talks on ending its nuclear weapons program but still had difficult issues to iron out with the United States, Pyongyang's top envoy said on Tuesday.
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With guarded optimism in the air,  six-way talks on North Korea's nuclear arms program will  consider a draft agreement on Friday that promises rare but  limited steps toward curbing Pyongyang's atomic ambitions.
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The chief U.S. envoy in nuclear disarmament talks with North Korea said on Monday he hopes moves toward ending Pyongyang's nuclear armament program can return to a tight timeline now that a banking dispute has been settled.
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The U.S. envoy was hopeful and his South Korean counterpart wary as delegates from six countries opened talks on Thursday aimed at dismantling North Korea's nuclear weapons program.