US Congressman Says N.Korea May Be Ready to Talk
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A senior U.S. congressman has urged  leaders of North Korea to re-engage in six-party discussions on  its nuclear programs and ended a visit saying on Tuesday he was  optimistic that Pyongyang was ready to talk.
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The United States and its negotiating partners are ready to resume talks with North Korea on its nuclear weapons program but North Korea has not agreed, a State Department spokesman said Thursday.
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The top U.S. negotiator with North Korea said on Thursday there is reason to believe talks on ending Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions can make progress when they resume next week but said there are no guarantees.
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North Korea could agree to implement a &quot;first tranche&quot; of measures to end its nuclear weapons program during the upcoming round of six-nation talks in Beijing next week, the top US negotiator said.
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North Korea on Friday proposed direct military talks with the United States, ahead of scheduled six-party talks concerning Pyongyang's nuclear arms program.
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A North Korean official said his   country will soon unload fuel rods from a nuclear reactor to   make plutonium for weapons, seeking to pressure Washington into   direct talks, a visiting U.S. scholar said on Saturday.
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The conservative president-elect of South Korea said that he was willing to meet with the North Korean leader to discuss the Northâs nuclear weapons programs.
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The United States said Thursday China should remain host of a preparatory meeting of the six-party talks aimed at resolving the nuclear crisis in the Korean peninsula.
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The top U.S. negotiator on North Korea, Christopher Hill, may meet with his counterparts from six-party talks on North Korea before formal meetings begin on December 18, the State Department said on Monday.
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A group of U.S. Congressmen met with North Korea's foreign minister in Pyongyang on Wednesday, the communist state's official news agency said, in an effort to persuade the North to rejoin talks on its nuclear weapons ambitions.
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Landmark US-North Korea talks on normalizing relations were to get underway Monday amid questions in Washington over whether US intelligence had exaggerated Pyongyang's nuclear threat.
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North Korea's chief nuclear negotiator plans to visit the United States within days for follow-up talks on a recent disarmament deal, South Korean news reports said Saturday.
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Six U.S. lawmakers will spend several days in North Korea next week to discuss the stalled six-party talks on the country's nuclear program, in the first congressional visit to the country since May 2003.
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The United States welcomed the prospect of six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear weapons program on the sidelines of an ASEAN meeting next week, as momentum appeared to gather for seizing the opportunity.
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North Korea on Friday announced it would return to six-party nuclear talks and would consider treating the United States as a "friend," shortly after a visiting U.S. congressional delegation said the North appeared ready to negotiate.
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The U.S. envoy to North Korean  nuclear talks told Congress on Thursday the North's uranium  enrichment program no longer will be a threat by year's end,  and said the diplomatic normalization Pyongyang expects will  happen only after full denuclearization.
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A U.S. congressman traveling North Korea Saturday said he will discuss the communist regime's nuclear program and human rights issues during talks with officials of the secretive communist nation.