North Korea seeks aid amid diplomacy on nuclear arms
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North Korea is seeking humanitarian aid  at talks with the South, an official said on Thursday,  signaling Pyongyang was trying to cash in on a reduction of  tensions on the Korean peninsula.
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With North Korea&#39;s nuclear tension in a 22-month impasse, Seoul is seeking to take on a more active role to resolve the issue.
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North Korea has demanded bilateral talks with the United States to defuse tension created by its announcement that it is a nuclear power, the communist state's U.N. envoy said in a South Korean newspaper interview published Friday.
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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 program.
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The United States urged North Korea to stop boasting about its nuclear weapons capability and return to the negotiating table to resolve the nuclear crisis in the Korean peninsula.
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SEOUL -- North Korea's No. 2 leader reiterated yesterday his country's pledge to abandon its nuclear weapons, as the impoverished nation sought a resumption of aid at its first high-level talks with South Korea since conducting an atomic test.
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North Korea on Friday proposed direct military talks with the United States, ahead of scheduled six-party talks concerning Pyongyang's nuclear arms program.
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Negotiators on North Korea's nuclear programs engaged in intense diplomacy Saturday to resolve remaining hurdles to a deal that would see the communist state take its first real steps to disarm.
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North Korea was probably pushed to take a deal to shut down its nuclear reactor in return for aid because of its faltering economy and limited diplomatic options, a senior South Korean official said on Friday.
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North Korean and US officials met this week to discuss the nuclear standoff on the Korean Peninsula. It appears they came no closer to resuming multilateral
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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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With global attention focused on whether and when North Korea will return to six-party talks on its nuclear weapons program, Pyongyang officials are &quot;sincere&quot; in wanting a denuclearized peninsula and await a &quot;better atmosphere&quot; to resume discussions, a
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North Korea has said it may be willing to give up its nuclear weapons, as fresh six-nation talks began amid warnings that four years of tough diplomacy on Pyongyang was now at a crossroads.
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North Korea is seriously considering its  role in talks on its nuclear plans because of what it sees as a  concerted campaign to topple the North's ruling system, the  North Korean Foreign Ministry said on Monday.
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Nuclear disarmament envoys from the United States and North Korea met in Beijing on Tuesday, seeking to advance a stalled agreement to dismantle the North's atomic weapons program.
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Intense diplomatic efforts are under way to persuade North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons programme.
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North Korea said on Friday it would boost its war deterrent, a day after the United States said it was sending its nuclear envoy back to Asia to discuss an atomic disarmament deal on which Pyongyang has missed a deadline.