NKorea bank transfer to start: report
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The long-delayed transfer of blacklisted North Korean assets from a Macau bank will begin Thursday, a report said, amid hopes of resolving the dispute which has held up a nuclear disarmament deal.
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Negotiations to transfer North Korean funds held at a Macau bank, central to the reclusive state moving on a nuclear disarmament deal, are in their final stages, South Korea's foreign minister said on Wednesday.
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The World Bank likely will redirect money from existing projects in the Asian nations devastated by earthquakes and flooding to provide immediate assistance for reconstruction, officials said Monday.
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North Korea has invited a delegation of the United Nations nuclear watchdog to visit the country in what could be a first step towards implementing an international agreement intended to curb its nuclear programme.
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The United States will seek the help of a Chinese intermediary bank to help arrange the transfer to North Korea of formerly frozen funds in a Macau bank, Indonesia's foreign minister said on Tuesday.
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The U.N. nuclear watchdog's governing body on Monday agreed to send inspectors to North Korea to verify Pyongyang is shutting down its atomic bomb program, diplomats said.
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South Korea&#39;s defense minister said  on Saturday he expects North Korea to begin to close its  nuclear reactor, the source of its weapons-grade plutonium,  once $25 million in frozen funds in a Macau bank are freed up.
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Six-party talks aimed at dismantling North Korea's nuclear program start in Beijing on Thursday, with a Japanese newspaper reporting that the isolated state has already signed a memorandum with the United States.
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The transfer of North Korean funds that have been frozen in a Macau bank is to begin on Thursday, Japan's Kyodo news agency said, possibly breaking a deadlock that has stalled a nuclear disarmament deal with Pyongyang.
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A top South Korean bank is sending a group of its single female employees on a blind date trip to North Korea, hoping that romance will make them happy at the office, an official said on Tuesday.
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North Korea heads into talks with the region's main powers this week with signs the impoverished state may be ready to agree to an initial deal over demands it stop building a nuclear arsenal in exchange for aid.
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South Korea's defense minister said on Saturday he expects North Korea to begin to close its nuclear reactor, the source of its weapons-grade plutonium, once $25 million in frozen funds in a Macau bank are freed up.
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North Korea used the bank accounts of a U.N. agency for deceptive cash transfers, among a wide range of abuses of that organization's presence in the communist state, a U.S. Senate panel reported on Wednesday.
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U.N. nuclear watchdog officials visiting North Korea traveled on Thursday to a reactor complex that the secretive state has promised to mothball under an aid-for-disarmament deal, Kyodo news agency reported.
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Six-party talks aimed at dismantling  North Korea's nuclear program start in Beijing on Thursday,  with a Japanese newspaper reporting that the isolated state has  already signed a memorandum with the United States.
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Washington expects North Korea will meet a commitment to shut down its nuclear facilities this month after it has received funds still frozen in a Macau bank, U.S. envoy Christopher Hill said on Friday.
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BEIJING, May 25 -- North Korea announced Monday that a prolonged dispute over $25 million frozen in Macau bank accounts has finally been resolved, opening the way for closure of its main nuclear reactor.