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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The White House said on Friday that  it had received a verbal reply through diplomatic channels to  U.S. President George W. Bush's letter to North Korean leader  Kim Jong-il about its nuclear programs.
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North Korea fired at least one short-range missile yesterday off its west coast, said US and South Korean officials, prompting quick US criticism of Pyongyang over the second such launch in as many weeks.
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North Korea fired up to two short-range missiles off its west coast on Thursday, said U.S. and South Korean officials, prompting quick U.S. criticism of Pyongyang over the second such launch in as many weeks.
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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 has assumed since  the mid-1990s that North Korea could make nuclear weapons,  Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday, playing down  a dramatic announcement from Pyongyang.
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The United States and South Korea have played down suggestions that a massive explosion in North Korea last week was caused by a nuclear device.
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A large cloud that appeared over North Korea in satellite images several days ago was not the result of a nuclear explosion, according to a US official.
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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 United States on Thursday played down an earlier warning to North Korea over that country's plans for a nuclear test, saying it was not threatening Pyongyang with "lethal" action.
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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 Monday.
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North Korea will respond to a pre-emptive U.S. military attack with an &quot;annihilating strike and a nuclear war,&quot; the state-run media said Monday, heightening its antagonistic rhetoric.
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North Korea declared Thursday that it had produced nuclear weapons to defend itself from the U.S. and that it had suspended participation in multinational talks to halt its arms program.
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BEIJING - South Korea and the US yesterday sought to play down fears that North Korea might have conducted a nuclear test after reports of a large explosion in the northern part of the communist country.
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North Korea said on Friday it had already accounted for its nuclear arms program as required under an international disarmament deal -- an assertion quickly rejected by the United States, which urged Pyongyang to produce a declaration soon.
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North Korea agrees to declare and disable its nuclear facilities by the end of 2007, a top US official says.
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WASHINGTON, DC -- The North Korean nuclear issue lies at the heart of US policies toward the Korean Peninsula. The North Korean nuclear issue is one of top priority foreign policies of President Bushâs second administration.