S.Korea: North committed to disarmament
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North Korea will abandon its nuclear programs only if other countries create a welcoming political environment and remove the threats that Pyongyang claims pushed it to develop its atomic arsenal, South Korea's main nuclear envoy said Friday.
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North Korea said on Friday it had already accounted for its nuclear arms program as required under an international disarmament deal -- an assertion quickly rejected by the United States, which urged Pyongyang to produce a declaration soon.
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North Korea will soon start disabling its Soviet-era nuclear facility that makes arms-grade plutonium as called for in a deal the secretive state struck with regional powers, the South's foreign minister said on Wednesday.
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North Korea has agreed to make a full declaration of all its nuclear programmes and to disable them by the end of the year, the chief United States negotiator said on Sunday.
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BEIJING, China -- North Korea is committed to holding six-party talks aimed at resolving the crisis over its nuclear weapons program, British Foreign Office minister Bill Rammell said Tuesday, Reuters reported.
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North Korea has agreed to fully account for and disable its nuclear program by the end of this year, the top U.S. nuclear negotiator said on Sunday.
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North Korea agreed Sunday to declare and disable all its nuclear facilities by the end of the year, the chief U.S. negotiator said -- the first time the communist country has offered a timeline to end its secretive atomic program.
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Â· South Korea's president forces promise at summit Â· Kim Jong-il told to give up nuclear programme
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North Korea moved a step closer to fulfilling a promise to shutter its main nuclear reactor after agreeing with international monitors Friday on how to verify a shutdown.
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North Korea's declaration that it possesses nuclear weapons does not make it a nuclear weapons state, South Korean Unification Minister Chung Dong-young said on Monday.
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UN nuclear chief Mohamed ElBaradei says North Korea is still "fully committed" to giving up its nuclear programme.
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South Korea says it has seen no sign of the North shutting its nuclear facility, a key part of last month's landmark deal.
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WASHINGTON -- North Korea declared yesterday for the first time that it has produced nuclear weapons and said it is quitting six-nation talks on arms control, sending the Bush administration and its allies scrambling to rescue a two-year-old diplomatic strategy to halt Pyongyang's arms program.
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North Korea declared Thursday for the  first time it possessed nuclear weapons and pulled out  indefinitely from six-party talks on its atomic ambitions,  saying it needed a defense against a hostile United States.
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South Korea said on Thursday that it would send a small amount of food to the impoverished North as part of an international aid effort but any large shipments would remain dependent on Pyongyang's nuclear disarmament.
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North Korea is committed to a disarmament agreement reached in February but wants sanctions against it lifted first, the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Wednesday on return from the reclusive communist state.
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South Korea has said it wants a binding written agreement to emerge from next week's six-nation talks on dismantling North Korea's nuclear weapons programme.