North Korea envoy demands end to sanctions: Yonhap
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North Korea wants the United States to free its overseas bank accounts and for countries to drop sanctions imposed after Pyongyang tested a nuclear weapon, South Korea's Yonhap news agency on Wednesday quoted its envoy as saying.
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US Ambassador to South Korea Alexander Vershbow hopes to attend an inter-Korean forum in North Korea next month, Yonhap news agency said Sunday.
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Intense diplomatic efforts are under way to persuade North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons programme.
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North Korea is unlikely to abandon its nuclear weapons before US President George W. Bush leaves office in January 2009, his special envoy said Thursday, calling for a revamp of six-party talks to end the crisis.
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North Korea has trapped itself   diplomatically by defying international warnings with its   missile launch in July and should find its own way out of the   crisis, Washington's chief envoy for talks with Pyongyang said   on Monday.
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North Korea is committed to a disarmament pact reached in February but wants sanctions lifted first, the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Wednesday on his return from a trip he said had cleared the air.
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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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North Korea said on Saturday it will   never return to talks on ending its nuclear weapons programs   under a U.S. crackdown on firms suspected of aiding Pyongyang's   counterfeiting and other illicit activities.
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Envoys to international talks on ending North Korea's nuclear weapons program struggled Friday to find a compromise as differences emerged over a Chinese proposal on how to begin disarmament
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North Korea on Friday will ask the United Nations to take up its complaint over what it calls a "fascist search" of a pro-North Korean group in Tokyo, a Japanese diplomat said.
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The U.S. envoy to stalled North Korea nuclear talks says the United States will not tolerate a nuclear North Korea and has warned Pyongyang not to test a nuclear weapon.
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North Korea said on Friday it would boost  its war deterrent, a day after the United States said it was  sending its nuclear envoy back to Asia to discuss an atomic  disarmament deal on which Pyongyang has missed a deadline.
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North Korea said on Friday it would boost its war deterrent, a day after the United States said it was sending its nuclear envoy back to Asia to discuss an atomic disarmament deal on which Pyongyang has missed a deadline.
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North Korea needs to &quot;get moving&quot; on shutting down its nuclear reactor while a complicated banking dispute is being resolved, US envoy Christopher Hill said here Tuesday.
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North Korea is committed to a disarmament pact reached in February but wants sanctions against it lifted first, the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Wednesday on his return from a trip he said had cleared the air.
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North Korea's chief nuclear envoy left for Beijing on Tuesday to meet a U.S. diplomat visiting the Chinese capital and will discuss a delay in a nuclear disarmament deal, Yonhap news agency reported.
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Envoys seeking to end North Korea&#39;s  nuclear arms ambitions decided to extend talks into Friday as  they tried to reach agreement on a deadline for disabling the  North&#39;s atomic facilities.