Get out of nuclear business, U.S. tells North Korea
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The U.S. envoy to nuclear talks headed back to Washington on Thursday with a promise from North Korea that it would study ideas proposed in two days of talks, and said the ball was now in Pyongyang's court.
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The United States said Tuesday it wants North Korea to move beyond an initial agreement to shut down its main plutonium-producing nuclear reactor and "come clean" about any program the communist nation has to enrich uranium.
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The United States and North Korea signed a memorandum during talks last month by which Pyongyang would begin closing a nuclear reactor while the U.S. starts providing energy assistance, a major Japanese newspaper reported Thursday.
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North Korea confirmed Sunday that it had shut down its Yongbyon atomic reactor under UN supervision, the first step in a process designed to rid the communist state of nuclear weapons.
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TOKYO -- Pyongyang and Washington have agreed on a three-week timetable for shutting down the North's plutonium-producing reactor, a top US nuclear envoy said today.
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The United States urged reclusive North Korea on Thursday to get out of the nuclear business and rejoin a treaty that aims to curb the spread of nuclear weapons.
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The United States urged reclusive North Korea to get out of the "nuclear business" on Thursday after listing luxury goods such as cognac, cigars and jet skis it seeks to keep out of the country under U.N. trade sanctions.
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North Korea said Friday it is willing to shut down its main nuclear reactor as soon as it receives an initial shipment of energy aid promised as a reward for closing the facility.
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The European Union, Japan, the United States and other world powers Wednesday urged North Korea to swiftly dismantle its nuclear weapons program, in statements at a meeting of the UN atomic watchdog.
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North Korea has said it wants to get promised shipments of oil before shutting down its Yongbyon nuclear reactor, delaying again a key obligation under a February nuclear agreement, U.S. officials said on Monday.
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After agreeing to dismantle its nukes, Pyongyang now says the U.S. must take it off a list of state sponsors of terror. It's a strategy that's worked before
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North Korea has told the United  States it has shut down a nuclear reactor as part of a  disarmament deal, the U.S. State Department said on Saturday  after a team of U.N. nuclear inspectors arrived in Pyongyang.
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The top U.S. nuclear envoy, just back from a rare visit to North Korea, said on Friday Pyongyang was ready to disable its nuclear reactor in weeks and meet pledges it made in a disarmament deal.
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North Korea offered to meet a U.S. request that it declare and disable its nuclear programs by the end of the year, South Korea said Wednesday, indicating its will to comply with a disarmament pledge after shutting down its sole operating reactor.
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North Korea's plutonium-producing nuclear reactor could be disabled by the end of the year, the top U.S. negotiator said Monday.
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North Korea declared Thursday that it had produced nuclear weapons to defend itself from the U.S. and that it had suspended participation in multinational talks to halt its arms program.
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A North Korean official said his   country will soon unload fuel rods from a nuclear reactor to   make plutonium for weapons, seeking to pressure Washington into   direct talks, a visiting U.S. scholar said on Saturday.