U.S. shift aims to ease N.Korea negotiations
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By acknowledging doubts about what it knows of North Korea's uranium enrichment program, the United States aims to set the record straight and ease resolution of an issue that has been a key obstacle to a nuclear agreement since 2002, U.S. officials and experts say.
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Grinding talks to end North Korea's nuclear arms ambitions will shift to technical wrangling over disarmament steps, envoys said on Friday as they prepared to endorse a broad plan lacking a deadline.
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Top negotiators from the United States and North Korea met on Saturday for two days of talks meant to advance an international drive to end Pyongyang's nuclear program.
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The new U.S. lead negotiator for  six-party talks on North Korean nuclear programs Tuesday  stressed diplomacy to defuse the crisis as Seoul pledged the  status quo on its policy of engagement with the communist  state.
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The Bush administration, chafing under North Korea's retreat from multilateral talks on nuclear disarmament, sought Thursday to push Pyongyang back to the bargaining table and warned that it faces increasing international isolation.
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Talks and fuel aid aimed at coaxing North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons program could move ahead in coming weeks, the U.S. nuclear envoy said on Sunday, welcoming Pyongyang's invitation to U.N. inspectors.
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A U.S. diplomat will visit Pyongyang  this week to try to push forward a stalled deal under which  North Korea promised to disclose all its nuclear programs and  eventually abandon them, a U.S. official said on Monday.
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Top U.S. nuclear negotiator Christopher Hill said on Wednesday North Korea could move ahead to "disable" its nuclear arms programs by the end of this year.
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Top negotiators from the United States and North Korea said on Saturday they had made progress on the first day of talks meant to advance an international effort to end Pyongyang's nuclear program.
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The planned resumption next week of  six-country talks on North Korea's nuclear programs has fanned  speculation about a U.S.-North Korean trade-off that is making  both supporters and skeptics of a potential deal uneasy.
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The United States showed some new flexibility in recent talks with North Korea on the nuclear issue but Pyongyang was unimpressed and is resisting participation in a new round of formal six-party negotiations, U.S. officials and experts said on Friday.
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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 on Wednesday played down expectations.
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Top U.S. nuclear negotiator Christopher Hill said on Wednesday North Korea could move ahead to "disable" its nuclear arms programmes by the end of this year, adding it was important to remain focused.
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U.S. and North Korean officials held talks on Monday aimed at eventually normalizing diplomatic ties as part of an agreement under which Pyongyang has pledged to scrap its nuclear arms programs in exchange for aid.
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The United States has decided to aim for a gradual transformation in North Korea rather than seek to topple North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's regime, a Japanese newspaper said Saturday.
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The United States has conveyed a proposal to North Korea to resume six-nation talks on its nuclear drive next month, South Korean officials said Thursday.
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A groundbreaking plan to curtail North Korea's nuclear arms ambitions in return for energy aid and security assurances edged toward approval on Tuesday as envoys to six-party talks waited for Pyongyang to give its nod.