U.N., U.S. exchange accusations on North Korea program
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The United States suspects that about $3 million in U.N. Development Program funds may have been diverted by North Korea to buy property in Britain, Canada and France, allegations denied by the agency.
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The Bush administration's tactics for disarming North Korea are not working, two key U.S. supporters of talks with Pyongyang told Secretary of State Colin Powell this week. But the administration is downplaying a rift with its partners on the sensitive issue &#151; which has been a subject of repeated sparring by President Bush and Democratic opponent John Kerry.
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North Korea on Monday blamed the United States for the stalemate in talks on its nuclear weapons programs, and warned it would use a "war deterrent force" if Washington brought the nuclear dispute before the U.N. Security Council.
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North Korea ruled out Monday attending  proposed six-way working-level talks on its nuclear arms  programs and questioned the entire negotiating process, blaming  hostile U.S. policy for Pyongyang's tougher stance.
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U.S. and allied envoys met the U.N. nuclear watchdog chief on Friday to complain about remarks they saw as undercutting efforts to shut down Iran's uranium enrichment program, diplomats said.
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North Korea has demanded bilateral talks with the United States to defuse tension created by its announcement that it is a nuclear power, the communist state's U.N. envoy said in a South Korean newspaper interview published Friday.
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North Korea has filed a protest with the United Nations and the Red Cross, accusing South Korea and the United States of "kidnapping" its citizens, a North Korean weekly said.
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The U.N. Development Program, in a growing dispute with Washington over its North Korean operations, denied on Friday it fired an employee for trying to expose the agency's alleged wrongdoing in Pyongyang.
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The United States has compelling  evidence North Korea has a uranium-based nuclear weapons  program and ending this activity is essential to resolving the  nuclear dispute with Pyongyang, according to two key former  U.S. officials.
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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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Differences between the US and South Korea and China over nuclear talks with North Korea are exaggerated, the US State Department said.
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Challenged by the UN nuclear chief to prove their nuclear programs are peaceful, North Korea said it would scrap its &quot;nuclear deterrence&quot; if the US ended its hostile policy and Iran said negotiations with three European countries may &quot;bring fruit.
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WASHINGTON - The United States has warned that North Korea might have to be brought before the United Nations Security Council if it refuses to take part in six-party talks to end its nuclear weapons drive.
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North Korean and U.S. officials met this  week in New York but made no progress on restarting six-party  talks on the North's nuclear programs, a North Korean Foreign  Ministry spokesman said on Saturday.
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Nuclear-armed North Korea has agreed to address questions over its controversial highly enriched uranium program that had triggered the nearly five-year atomic standoff with Washington, US envoy Christopher Hill said Monday.
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North Korea is accusing the United States of applying &quot;double standards&quot; in its role as one of the mediators in six-party nuclear nonproliferation talks on the Korean peninsula.
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SEOUL, OCTOBER 26: US secretary of State Colin Powell on Tuesday sought to fend off complaints from key partners in the effort to end North Koreaâs nuclear programs that the Bush administration has not been sufficiently creative or willing to compromise