North Korea signs agreements with Vietnam
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Vietnam and North Korea signed agriculture, sport, tourism and cultural agreements on Saturday on the first stop of a rare Southeast Asian tour by North Korea's Premier.
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Vietnam's legislature ratified the country's entry into the World Trade Organization on Tuesday, paving the way for the communist nation to become the global trade body's 150th member.
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North Korea has agreed to "containment and surveillance" measures by International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors to verify a shutdown of its nuclear arms program, an IAEA report said on Tuesday.
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South Korean negotiators in Afghanistan have reached a deal with Taliban militants holding 19 South Korean Christian aid workers for over a month, a presidential spokesman in Seoul said Tuesday.
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Six countries reached a tentative agreement Tuesday on initial steps toward North Korea's nuclear disarmament that could usher in the first concrete progress after more than three years of talks marked by delays, deadlock and the communist country's first nuclear test explosion.
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Secretive North Korea signed a handful of deals with resource-rich Mongolia on Friday, Chinese state media said, in the first visit by a high-ranking North Korean official to Ulan Bator since 1988.
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BEIJING -- Envoys from six nations reached a tentative agreement early today on the first steps toward North Korea's nuclear disarmament, a potential breakthrough in talks that have faltered repeatedly since 2003.
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North Korea hopes that a permanent peace treaty with the U.S. will enable it to spend less on its military.
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Weapons-grade uranium was removed from Vietnam's sole nuclear reactor at the weekend under anti-terrorism agreements with the United States and Russia, a Vietnamese government agency said.
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Vietnam becomes Cuba's latest partner in oil exploration and drilling in the Gulf of Mexico under one of several agreements signed Friday during a visit by Vietnamese Communist Party chief Nong Duc Manh.
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The United States and North Korea have signed a memorandum under which Pyongyang has agreed to shut down a nuclear reactor in exchange for energy aid, a newspaper said.
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A leaked UN nuclear watchdog report says North Korea has agreed to measures to shut its nuclear facilities.
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Key differences over a deal to unravel North Korea's nuclear arms program were settled in six-country talks early on Tuesday after days of haggling over a huge package of energy aid for the reclusive communist state.
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Korea and Singapore sealed a free-trade agreement yesterday that covers nine broad areas, including electronics, finance and intellectual property rights.
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South Korea and Singapore concluded a free trade agreement during a regional summit in Laos, the South Korean government announced today, according to newswires.
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President Bush has signed a law aimed at bolstering human rights and market reforms in North Korea, officials said on Tuesday.
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North Korea said on Friday it had given an account of its nuclear arms program as required in an international disarmament deal, while separately threatening to boost "war deterrent".