North Korea fully ready to end nuclear work: envoy
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North Korea is fully prepared to shut down its nuclear facilities and allow inspections, a South Korean official said in New York, where envoys from Pyongyang and Washington are set to begin rare talks on improving ties.
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North Korea has agreed to declare and disable all its nuclear facilities by the end of this year, the chief U.S. negotiator said Sunday.
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North Korea has a three-week deadline from now to shut down its Yongbyon nuclear reactor, top U.S. nuclear envoy Christopher Hill said on Saturday.
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A U.S. diplomat who heads to Pyongyang this week trying to push forward a stalled nuclear deal said on Tuesday that North Korea must give a complete account of its atomic arms program.
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UN nuclear chief Mohamed ElBaradei says North Korea is still "fully committed" to giving up its nuclear programme.
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North Korea is prepared to extend wide cooperation to the International Atomic Energy Agency in its mission to help shut down Pyongyang's weapons-capable nuclear facilities, an IAEA report made available Tuesday to The Associated Press suggests.
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North Korea agrees to shut its Yongbyon nuclear reactor within three weeks, US envoy Christopher Hill says.
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North Korea agreed in weekend talks with  the United States to fully account for and disable its nuclear  programs by the end of this year, negotiators said on Sunday.
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U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Chris Hill said on Sunday that North Korea "will provide a full declaration of all their nuclear programs and will disable their nuclear programs by the end of this year, 2007."
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The head of a U.N. nuclear watchdog delegation said on Friday it was "satisfied" with a tour of a North Korean reactor complex that the secretive state has promised to scrap under an aid-for-disarmament deal, Kyodo news agency said.
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The US government urged North Korea Sunday to make "a complete and correct declaration" of its nuclear program as an end-of-year deadline loomed under an agreement by key powers.
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A top North Korean official is quoted saying Pyongyang will not abandon nuclear weapons when it returns to talks.
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North Korea confirmed Sunday that it had shut down its Yongbyon atomic reactor under UN supervision, the first step in a process designed to rid the communist state of nuclear weapons.
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North Korea is willing to take initial  steps toward ending its nuclear arms program, South Korean  officials said after six-party talks opened on Thursday,  hinting at rare progress in talks which have ended in stalemate  for years.
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North Korea will not abandon its  nuclear weapons until the United States gives up what Pyongyang  regards as a "hostile" policy toward it and drops financial  sanctions, its envoy to nuclear talks said on Saturday.
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The top U.S. nuclear envoy, just returned from a rare visit to North Korea, said on Friday that Pyongyang was ready to promptly disable its nuclear reactor in weeks and live up to pledges it made in a disarmament deal.
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UN nuclear watchdog head Mohamed ElBaradei says North Korea is still "fully committed" to giving up its nuclear programme.