North Korea denies uranium program: U.S. envoy says
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North Korea has again denied running a clandestine program to enrich uranium for weapons, long suspected by the United States, a top U.S. nuclear envoy said on Wednesday.
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The United States passed a warning to North Korea not to conduct a nuclear test, the chief U.S. envoy to stalled disarmament talks with the communist country said Wednesday. "We are not going to live with a nuclear North Korea," he said.
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Nuclear-armed North Korea has agreed to address questions over its controversial highly enriched uranium program that had triggered the nearly five-year atomic standoff with Washington, US envoy Christopher Hill said Monday.
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SEOUL/WASHINGTON  - North Korea demanded bilateral  talks with the United States over its nuclear weapons program  but Washington quickly rejected the idea on Friday and insisted  Pyongyang return to six-party negotiations.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell has rejected the notion that divisions in the Bush administration had hindered Washington's ability to roll back North Korea's nuclear program.
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Description: The South Korean government denies having any plans to develop nuclear weapons, despite the government&#39;s admission Thursday that its scientists developed a small amount of weapons-grade uranium four years ago.
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South Korea denied harboring any nuclear weapons ambitions Friday, saying a one-time uranium enrichment test by its scientists shouldn't derail U.S.-led efforts to dismantle rival North Korea's nuclear programs.
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The United States has denied claims from Pyongyang that North Korea has been taken off the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism.
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The U.S. State Department denied on   Wednesday that its top negotiator with North Korea sought to   contact Pyongyang while on a recent trip to Asia.
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US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte said Tuesday he is certain North Korea had a secret uranium enrichment programme but stopped short of saying whether it still exists.
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North Korea has not provided a full account of its nuclear program despite Pyongyang's statement asserting it already made a declaration required under a disarmament deal, U.S. officials said on Friday.
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U.S. Assistant Secretary of State   Christopher Hill said on Monday North Korea was showing no   interest in returning to six-party talks on winding up its   nuclear weapons program.
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The U.N. Development Program, in  a growing dispute with Washington over its North Korean  operations, denied on Friday it fired an employee for trying to  expose the agency&#39;s alleged wrongdoing in Pyongyang.
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The United States rejected North Korea's conditions for a resumption of six-party talks on scrapping its nuclear programs, a response to Pyongyang's latest demands that left the two nations in a stalemate.
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North Korea boasted publicly for the first time Thursday that it has nuclear weapons and said it will stay away from disarmament talks, dramatically raising the stakes in the 2-year-old dispute. The Bush administration called on Pyongyang to give up its atomic aspirations so life can be better for its impoverished people.
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The United States wants a diplomatic initiative to end the crisis over North Korea&#39;s nuclear program. However, a US official has dismissed any idea that Washington is about to soften its stance.
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South Korea's top nuclear energy official on Tuesday  denied claims that scientists in his country had produced near-bomb-grade uranium, seeking to ease concern that the previously undisclosed experiments were in apparent violation of international law.