Downer begins North Korea mission
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Foreign Minister Alexander Downer has begun his peace mission to North Korea in a bid to convince the Stalinist regime to abandon its nuclear weapons programs.
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The United States and North Korea began face-to-face talks in Geneva on Saturday aimed at reaching an agreement on how to proceed with Pyongyang&#39;s denuclearisation pledge.
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SADO. Japan -- A North Carolina man who deserted the US Army for North Korea nearly 40 years ago says today is the first day of the last chapter of his life.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has made his first public appearance since his country test-launched a barrage of missiles more than a month ago, official media reported Sunday.
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ALEXANDER Downer&#39;s entreaties in North Korea last week bore bitter fruit yesterday when Pyongyang branded US President George W. Bush a political &quot;imbecile&quot; more tyrannical
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Forty-five years ago, Private First Class Joe Dresnok got fed up with the U.S. Army and decided to try his luck on the other side of the demilitarized zone, in North Korea.
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North Korea's second-most senior leader toured a shiny new science park in Beijing Monday, a first stop on visit aimed at finding ways to help the North's moribund economy as much as jump-starting stalled nuclear talks.
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BEIJING : Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer is heading to Pyongyang, pledging to offer North Korea more economic aid if it agrees to stop developing nuclear weapons.
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North Korea on Sunday stepped up anti-US propaganda with a six-nation nuclear disarmament process bogged down and Pyongyang and Washington in dispute over the delay.
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North Korea has invited a delegation of the United Nations nuclear watchdog to visit the country in what could be a first step towards implementing an international agreement intended to curb its nuclear programme.
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South Korea sent a shipload of oil to North Korea on Thursday, a move expected to trigger the communist nation to shut down its only working nuclear reactor in a landmark first step toward dismantling its atomic bomb program.
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BEIJING  - A North Korean delegation headed by the Stalinist state&#39;s number two leader arrived in China amid faltering attempts to resolve the standoff over the North&#39;s nuclear weapons program.
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U.N. inspectors were working to verify North Koreaâs announcement that it had shut down its nuclear facilities in Yongbyon.
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North Korea&#39;s shutdown of its plutonium-producing reactor is a good start but persuading it to abandon all its nuclear ambitions will be difficult, the chief US negotiator said Monday.
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Just what Alexander Downer was thinking when he declared on radio last Friday that &quot;they could fire a missile from North Korea to Sydney&quot; is unclear. The provocative remark, just days before his arrival yesterday on his second visit to the North Korean ...
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U.S. and North Korean officials start talks on Monday aimed at eventually normalizing diplomatic ties as part of a agreement under which Pyongyang has pledged to scrap its nuclear arms programs for aid.
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WASHINGTON -- The United States, taking a step Pyongyang has long desired, will begin normalization talks with North Korea in New York next week but the State Department yesterday played down expectations.