Caution on hope for North Korea deal
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Prospects of ending North Korea's nuclear arms ambitions brightened a little on Friday as negotiators considered a plan for Pyongyang to suspend activities at a nuclear plant as a first step to dismantlement.
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THE international effort to end the North Korean nuclear crisis appears at risk of unravelling, despite Foreign Minister Alexander Downer&#39;s high-profile mission to the secretive Stalinist state.
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BEIJING -- Deadlocked over energy aid to North Korea, envoys to six-nation denuclearization talks decided last night to give themselves one more day to come up with an agreement on the first steps toward getting rid of North Korea's nuclear weapons program.
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As the United States and North Korea prepare to discuss normalizing diplomatic relations on Monday, many pitfalls threaten the process, including U.S. promises to discuss lifting sanctions and removing Pyongyang from the U.S. terrorism list.
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North Korea may wait for the Bush   administration to go before implementing a deal to end its   atomic ambitions, despite the hardship the wait would bring the   impoverished country, a top former U.S. diplomat said on   Tuesday.
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Pyongyang appears to have been well-rewarded for cooperation on nukes, but its follow-through on denuclearization will shape the outcome
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The United States and North Korea haggled on Monday over energy aid the North would receive in exchange for ending its nuclear arms ambitions but it looked like some sort of an agreement in six-part talks was emerging.
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Hopes are fading that Pyongyang will attend a fourth round of talks on ending its nuclear weapons programs, following revelations about South Korean nuclear tests.
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North Korea has accused the United States of attempting to scupper a recent deal to lift financial sanctions on the communist state within a month, a report said.
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North Korea has set tough terms for a freeze of one of its nuclear facilities, demanding that the United States exceed commitments made under a Clinton-era deal that the Bush administration previously derided as inadequate.
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BEIJING -- The watershed six-party accord concluded yesterday with North Korea holds huge long-term promise for the Korean Peninsula and beyond, but pitfalls lie ahead.
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Analysts are concerned that North Korea may see an opportunity to deepen the wedge between the allies.
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Sometimes high diplomacy depends on simple math. Take the North Korean nuclear deal, which was reached in Beijing on Feb. 13. Under a side agreement, the United States promised to resolve within 30 days a Treasury Department case that had frozen North Korean funds at a bank in Macau suspected of...
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South Korea is sceptical about reaching a substantive agreement at the next round of six-party talks aimed at dismantling North Korea&#39;s nuclear programmes, Seoul&#39;s top negotiator to the talks said today.
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A proposed free-trade deal between the United States and South Korea would probably be doomed if Washington succeeds in putting rice on the negotiating table, according to a source familiar with the subject.
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With guarded optimism in the air, six-way talks on North Korea's nuclear arms program will consider a draft agreement on Friday that promises rare but limited steps toward curbing Pyongyang's atomic ambitions.
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The US says it hopes North Korea will resume nuclear talks, but it rules out offering new concessions.