US says has limited N Korean missile sales
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The United States has had some  success in limiting North Korea's export of missiles by  persuading other countries not to buy them, a senior  administration official says.
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The US suspends sales of all spare parts from the retired F-14 fighter over fears they could end up in Iran.
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The United States have gone into another round of direct talks with North Korea despite reporting no progress in the campaign to convince Pyongyang to give up its nuclear arms.
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TOKYO, Jan. 1 -- North Korea failed to fulfill its October promise to declare all its nuclear programs by the end of 2007 -- and the United States did not make a big deal out of it.
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The United States has assumed since  the mid-1990s that North Korean is able to make nuclear  weapons, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday,  playing down a dramatic announcement from Pyongyang.
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SEOUL: North Korea said on Saturday it would not return to international talks on its nuclear weapons programme until the line-up of a new US administration emerges and Washington drops its âhostile policyâ toward the communist state.
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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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North Korea&#39;s reluctance to resume talks to end its nuclear weapons programs will delay a multilateral security guarantee and aid for the Stalinist state, US Secretary of State Colin Powell told AFP in an interview Wednesday.
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The United States rejected North Korea's conditions for a resumption of six-party talks on scrapping its nuclear programs, a response to Pyongyang's latest demands that left the two nations in a stalemate.
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North Korea has successfully tested new short-range missiles and is close to making them operational, posing a threat to South Korea and Japan, a senior US defence official said.
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North Korea has not provided a full account of its nuclear program despite Pyongyang's statement asserting it already made a declaration required under a disarmament deal, U.S. officials said on Friday.
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North Korea lashed out at the United States over its plans to build a missile defense shield Tuesday but did not directly address concerns that it is preparing to test-fire a missile capable of reaching the United States.
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North Korean and US officials met this week to discuss the nuclear standoff on the Korean Peninsula. It appears they came no closer to resuming multilateral talks on ending Pyongyang&#39;s nuclear weapons programs.
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The United States said Friday it was "still waiting" for North Korea's full account of its nuclear programs, after Pyongyang said it fulfilled a disarmament deal by declaring them in November.
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The United States insisted Friday that North Korea could disable its nuclear facilities by the end of the year, even though negotiators have been unable to get a firm commitment from Pyongyang to do so.
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North Korea could flight test at any  time a ballistic missile potentially capable of reaching parts  of the United States with a nuclear-weapon-sized payload, the  State Department's top arms control official said on Friday.
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North Korea has missed a year-end deadline to provide a full account of its nuclear weapons program under a disarmament-for-aid deal, a U.S. official said on Monday.