No Decision Yet on Korea Nuclear Talks, Japan&#39;s Kawaguchi Says
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No decision has yet been made on a fourth round of six-nation talks aimed at dismantling the North Korea&#39;s nuclear programs, Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi said at a press
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South Korean Unification Minister Chung Dong-young said on Wednesday he is expecting an important decision to be made on the North Korean nuclear issue.
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Japan has the technological know-how to produce a nuclear weapon but has no immediate plans to do so, the foreign minister said Thursday, several weeks after communist North Korea carried out a nuclear test.
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Japan&#39;s foreign minister said Sunday that Tokyo remains cautious about imposing economic sanctions on North Korea because the impoverished communist country could use it as an excuse to pull out of bilateral talks.
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Japan expressed "serious concern" to  North Korea on Saturday about its reported plan to test-fire a  ballistic missile but the Koreans did not respond, the head of  Japan's delegation at talks in Beijing was quoted as saying.
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This week's talks between Japan and North  Korea show that efforts to hold another round of six-party  negotiations on the North's nuclear program are gathering pace,  South Korea's foreign minister said on Wednesday.
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Countries involved in talks on ending   North Korea's nuclear weapons program plan to hold discussions   soon excluding Pyongyang, the chief South Korean and U.S.   envoys to the stalled discussions said on Monday.
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Japan and North Korea on Thursday wrapped up two days of talks on establishing diplomatic relations without visible progress in disputes over key issues that have hampered efforts to improve bilateral ties.
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Japan and North Korea cut short talks on Thursday toward establishing diplomatic relations, Japanese diplomats said, but the reason was not immediately clear.
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Japan is trying to agree on dates for  fence-mending summits between its new prime minister, Shinzo  Abe, and the leaders of China and South Korea, a senior  Japanese foreign ministry official said on Monday.
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Japan has admitted it would refuse to fund any deal on ending North Korea's nuclear ambitions without clear progress in a bilateral row over the communist state's abductions of Japanese nationals.
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Japan and North Korea will hold talks on establishing diplomatic relations next week in Ulan Bator, Japanese Foreign Ministry officials said on Tuesday. The two-day talks from September 5 will be held as part of a six-country deal to scrap Pyongyang's nuclear arms programmes in exchange for aid and diplomatic recognition.
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North Korea is committed to holding  six-party talks aimed at ending the nuclear weapons crisis, but  with the U.S. election looming, it has not indicated when, a  top British official said on Tuesday.
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Negotiations on where to build the world&#39;s first nuclear fusion reactor ended without an agreement on either of the two sides under consideration in France and Japan, a Western diplomat said on Tuesday.
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The United States is setting a deadline  of early February for a reply from North Korea on whether the  communist state will return to six-party talks on its nuclear  arms program, a Japanese newspaper said on Thursday.
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A US envoy said this week's talks on North Korea's nuclear weapons could discuss economic incentives for Pyongyang, but Japan ruled out funding a deal without progress in a dispute over kidnapped Japanese.
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Japan stood by its refusal to give aid to North Korea on Tuesday unless Pyongyang settles a feud over Japanese kidnapped decades ago, adding a new twist to this week's talks on ending the North's nuclear arms program.