Envoy urges patience on North Korea deadline
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North Korea's failure to meet a deadline to declare its nuclear activities needs to be confronted with patience and perseverance, a senior U.S. envoy said on Monday.
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A trip by diplomats to the site of a mysterious blast in North Korea has been delayed for logistical reasons, Western diplomats based in Pyongyang said on Wednesday.
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A long-delayed round of international talks aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear weapons program is scheduled for later this month, a senior U.S. official said Saturday.
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Negotiators seeking to end North Korea's nuclear arms program were hopeful of ending their latest session in Beijing on Thursday with an agreement on a deadline for crippling the North's atomic facilities.
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Envoys seeking to end North Korea's nuclear arms ambitions sought to forge agreement on Thursday on a deadline for disabling the North's atomic facilities and exposing its trove of nuclear secrets.
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North Korea will not abandon its nuclear weapons until the United States gives up what Pyongyang regards as a "hostile" policy toward it and drops financial sanctions, its envoy to nuclear talks said on Saturday.
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North Korea appears almost certain to miss a deadline in a nuclear deal, a development that is unlikely to scuttle the disarmament-for-aid pact it reached with regional powers but could hamper its implementation.
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North Korea should move quickly to shut down its source of bomb-grade plutonium, a top U.S. envoy said on Tuesday, voicing hope that stalled six-party talks on scrapping its nuclear arms program could resume in early July.
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In a last-minute nudge to North Korea, the U.S. State Department said Sunday it was "unfortunate" that Pyongyang had not supplied a complete declaration of its nuclear programs before a Monday deadline but signaled it would continue disarmament talks with its allies.
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BEIJING -- Deadlocked on Sunday over energy aid to North Korea, envoys to six-nation talks on the Pyongyang government's nuclear weapons program gave themselves one more day to reach agreement on first steps toward eliminating the program.
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A top U.S. nuclear envoy, who met South Korea's president-elect on Thursday, said it was possible to end North Korea's nuclear arms programme this year despite Pyongyang missing a deadline in a disarmament deal.
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BEIJING -- Deadlocked over energy aid to North Korea, envoys to six-nation denuclearization talks decided last night to give themselves one more day to come up with an agreement on the first steps toward getting rid of North Korea's nuclear weapons program.
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A top U.S. nuclear envoy met his North Korean counterpart at Pyongyang's embassy in the Chinese capital on Tuesday as Washington sought to revive a disarmament process stalled since the end of last year
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Chief US nuclear envoy Christopher Hill called Friday for movement from North Korea on the long-running international row over its nuclear weapons programme after talks with his Russian counterpart.
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China, host of six-party talks aimed at reining in North Korea's nuclear program, on Thursday described North Korea's failure to meet a deadline to account for its nuclear activities as a natural delay.
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North Korea is still committed to an international disarmament-for-aid deal, a U.S. nuclear envoy said on Wednesday, urging patience even though the reclusive state missed a deadline to list its nuclear arms program.
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U.S. envoy Christopher Hill said there was much work to be done at Wednesday's new round of six-party talks on reining in North Korea's nuclear program but held out the hope of agreeing to a disarmament schedule.