Envoy urges patience on North Korea deadline
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North Korea's failure to meet a deadline to declare its nuclear activities needs to be confronted with patience and perseverance, a senior U.S. envoy said on Monday.
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A top US envoy says diplomacy could still resolve the standoff over North Korea&#039;s missile tests as China and Russia stood firm against a push at the United Nations to impose sanctions.
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TOYKO -- Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, in Asia to prod North Korea to return to talks on ending its nuclear programs, said that while there is still time to resolve the impasse, &quot;there is a sense of urgency.&quot;
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North Korea warned that it would slow work to disable its main nuclear complex at Yongbyon, north of Pyongyang, because of delays in deliveries of aid.
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The chief U.S. envoy at North Korean nuclear talks told lawmakers Wednesday that the United States would be persistent in finding out how far North Korea had progressed on a secret uranium-based weapons program.
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SEOUL, South Korea  - The international community is losing patience over the slow-moving six-way talks on North Korea's nuclear weapons program, and the UN Security Council should act on the matter, the UN nuclear chief said Wednesday.
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North Korea is looking for an extended delay in resuming negotiations over its nuclear weapons program and even told China there was no point in continuing the six-sided talks at all, a senior U.S. official says.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Tuesday Washington would not set a deadline to reach a deal in six-party talks on North Korea but made clear next week's negotiations must not be held just for the sake of talking.
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Envoys seeking to end North Korea's nuclear arms ambitions were hopeful of forging agreement on Thursday on a deadline for crippling the North's atomic facilities and exposing its trove of nuclear secrets.
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The path to disarming North Korea of its nuclear weapons will prove much harder than clearing a deadlock over its funds that took nearly two years, South Korea's chief nuclear envoy was quoted as saying on Friday.
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WASHINGTON A top Bush administration official says North Korea is stalling talks on its nuclear weapons program until after the November elections.
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North Korea&#39;s 2-year-old nuclear crisis has taxed the world&#39;s patience, the chief UN nuclear regulator said Wednesday, urging communist Pyongyang to return to its disarmament treaty obligations.
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The top U.S. envoy at stalled North Korean disarmament talks said Thursday that the United States wants to meet with South Korea, Japan, Russia and China next week to figure out a way to persuade North Korea to return to negotiations.
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The American envoy to deadlocked nuclear disarmament talks with North Korea said Tuesday that he was pushing for a meeting with the United States' other partners despite the North's refusal to participate.
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Communist North Korea dug in yesterday, saying its UN diplomats met US officials in New York on Tuesday and again on Friday, but concluded that it should hold off on negotiations
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Senior Chinese and South Korean officials have met in an effort to restart stalled talks on North Korean nuclear disarmament amid signs of US impatience with the diplomatic process.
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The path to disarming North Korea of its  nuclear weapons will prove much harder than clearing a deadlock  over its funds that took nearly two years, South Korea&#39;s chief  nuclear envoy was quoted as saying on Friday.