North Korea urged to end nuclear plans swiftly
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South Korea urged North Korea on Wednesday to act quickly to end its nuclear arms programme when the rival states met for their first high-level talks since Pyongyang's missile and nuclear tests last year.
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North Korea is considering suspending operations at its nuclear facilities as soon as the first shipment of heavy fuel reaches its port under an aid-for- disarmament deal, its Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Friday.
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North Korea's 2-year-old nuclear crisis  has taxed the world's patience, the chief U.N. nuclear  regulator said Wednesday, urging communist Pyongyang to return  to its disarmament treaty obligations.
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The international community needs to offer incentives to North Korea rather than just apply pressure for it to return to six-party talks aimed at dismantling its nuclear program, the head of the U.N. nuclear agency said on Friday.
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South Korea and China have urged North Korea to return swiftly to six-nation talks after the Stalinist regime sent global tensions spiking by saying it planned to carry out a nuclear test.
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North Korea's representative at talks on its nuclear programme says it should be given light-water reactors.
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The United States expects North Korea to shut down the reactor at the heart of its nuclear arms development program within about three weeks, top U.S. nuclear envoy Christopher Hill said on Saturday.
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The United Nations nuclear watchdog  Friday called on North Korea to give up any nuclear weapons it  may have and allow U.N. inspectors to return to verify that the  country's atomic program is peaceful.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-il said on Tuesday each party should take "initial actions" in an aid-for-disarmament deal, Xinhua news agency reported amid signs Pyongyang was preparing to shut down its main nuclear plant.
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The United States urged North Korea on Friday to give a full declaration of its nuclear activities after Pyongyang missed an end-2007 deadline for presenting the inventory under a disarmament-for-aid deal.
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Calling it a matter of urgency, Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday North Korea should resume participation in nuclear disarmament talks and set aside its concerns about new "hostile acts" by the United States against the communist government.
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North Korea should move quickly to shut down its source of bomb-grade plutonium, a top U.S. envoy said on Tuesday, voicing hope that stalled six-party talks on scrapping its nuclear arms program could resume in early July.
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North Korea's 2-year-old nuclear crisis has taxed the world's patience, the chief U.N. nuclear regulator said Wednesday, urging communist Pyongyang to return to its disarmament treaty obligations.
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The European Union, Japan, the United States and other world powers Wednesday urged North Korea to swiftly dismantle its nuclear weapons program, in statements at a meeting of the UN atomic watchdog.
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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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Japan's prime minister called on North Korea Monday to quickly resume negotiations on ending its nuclear weapons program, as support grew for Japan to take a tougher line against the communist country.
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North Korea's No. 2 leader reiterated Thursday his country's pledge to abandon its nuclear weapons, as the impoverished nation sought a resumption of aid at its first high-level talks with South Korea since conducting an atomic test.