N.Korea puts nuclear monitors' return on hold
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North Korea said on Thursday a planned visit by U.N. nuclear monitors was on hold because it had not received unfrozen bank funds, shaking hopes Pyongyong would start disabling its atom bomb program soon.
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South Korea will likely wait until North Korea returns to talks before dealing with a request for fertilizer to help its faltering agricultural sector, a South Korean government minister said on Monday.
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How to verify that North Korea is shutting down its main nuclear reactor will dominate the agenda for a rare U.N. visit this week to the communist nation, a senior nuclear monitor said Monday.
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North Korea ruled out on Thursday any  multi-party talks on its nuclear weapons programs until South  Korea's recently disclosed past atomic experiments have been  fully explained.
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BEIJING/KUALA LUMPUR  - The U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Wednesday that North Korea had shut down its nuclear reactor and four related facilities, a major step in efforts to get it to give up its nuclear weapons programs.
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U.N. inspectors today began monitoring North Koreaâs promise to scale back its nuclear weapons program.
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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will resume inspections in North Korea following Pyongyang's announcement that it will curb its nuclear activities, its chief Mohamed ElBaradei announced.
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Japan's top government spokesman says Tokyo is stepping up monitoring of North Korea amid speculation that the communist nation could carry out a nuclear test as early as this weekend.
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South Korea said Friday it is continuing to monitor North Korea, but declined to confirm or deny a report citing alleged evidence that the communist nation is preparing for an underground nuclear test.
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North Korea is plotting an extended delay in resuming talks on its nuclear weapons program and has told China there was no point in continuing the six-sided talks at all, a senior U.S. official said Tuesday.
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North Korea set three conditions on  Friday to be met before it would consider returning to  six-party talks on its nuclear programs.
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Japan says North Korea must let international inspectors monitor its nuclear sites, ahead of six-nation talks.
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Japan decided Friday to delay imposing economic sanctions on North Korea, a move the isolated communist nation had said it would consider a declaration of war.
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North Korea's 2-year-old nuclear crisis has taxed the world's patience, the chief U.N. nuclear regulator said Wednesday, urging communist Pyongyang to return to its disarmament treaty obligations.
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North Korea has agreed to wide-ranging U.N. measures to verify a shutdown of its atom bomb program, nuclear inspectors said on Tuesday, but doubts arose about when disarmament would begin.
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North Korea set three conditions on Friday to be met before it would consider returning to six-party talks on its nuclear programs.
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The date when North Korea shuts its nuclear reactor now rests on discussions between it and five other countries that signed a disarmament deal, a U.N. nuclear watchdog official said on Saturday after talks in Pyongyang.