Official: U.S. moves to sanction N.Korea
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The United States is moving to impose sanctions on North Korea for test-launching a series of missiles in July, a senior South Korean official said Tuesday.
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North Korea threatened on Friday to take   "stronger physical actions" after Japan imposed punitive   measures in response to its barrage of missile tests and pushed   for international sanctions at the United Nations.
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The United States and its allies are looking for &quot;the proper way&quot; to proceed with diplomatic efforts to end North Korea's nuclear weapons programs, the White House said.
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The United States has decided to aim for  a gradual transformation in North Korea rather than seek to  topple North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's regime, a Japanese  newspaper said Saturday.
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North Korea wants sanctions dropped and the United States to free its overseas bank accounts as preconditions for dismantling its nuclear program, a news agency said on Wednesday, terms likely to become a sticking point in negotiations.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell sought  South Korea's support on Tuesday for a U.S. hard line on  Pyongyang's nuclear programs as Seoul stepped up security along  its border with North Korea due to a suspected infiltration.
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Japan's Cabinet will approve plans for a new set of financial sanctions on North Korea in response to the communist nation's missile test in July, a top government spokesman said Monday.
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The Bush administration declared that the U.S. was Ânot going to live withÂ a nuclear-armed North Korea.
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A senior North Korean official said his   country plans to unload fuel rods from a nuclear reactor to   obtain more plutonium for weapons and pressure Washington for   direct talks, a visiting U.S. scholar said on Saturday.
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North Korea expects the United States to lift financial sanctions as part of a nuclear disarmament deal and will retaliate if it fails to do so, a senior North Korean official said Saturday.
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North Korea has not met its  commitment to fully account for its nuclear activities by the  end of 2007 under a disarmament agreement, the United States  said on Sunday, urging Pyongyang to comply with its  obligations.
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The Japanese Cabinet approves a new set of financial sanctions against North Korea.
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Talks and fuel aid aimed at coaxing  North Korea to carry out nuclear disarmament could move ahead  in coming weeks, the U.S. nuclear envoy said on Sunday,  welcoming Pyongyang&#39;s invitation to U.N. inspectors.
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North Korea appears to have met the legal criteria to be taken off the U.S. state sponsors of terrorism list although its removal depends on progress on denuclearization agreements, a U.S. official said on Tuesday.
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VIENNA, Austria  -- Members of the U.N.'s nuclear agency on Monday approved sending experts to North Korea to supervise the shutdown of the North's plutonium-producing reactor, a diplomat said.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell sought  South Korea's support on Tuesday for a U.S. hard line on North  Korea after China said Washington must be more flexible to  entice the reclusive state back to nuclear arms talks.
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The Bush administration is taking steps that could enable the release of North Korean assets frozen in a Macau bank &#151; an action sought by Pyongyang as part of a nuclear arms deal.