S Korea seeks N Korea diplomacy
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South Korea says it wants to see a peaceful solution to the controversy over North Korea's programme.
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South Korea and China have urged North Korea to return swiftly to six-nation talks after the Stalinist regime sent global tensions spiking by saying it planned to carry out a nuclear test.
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South Korea and the United States are  hoping China can bring unruly ally North Korea back to stalled  talks on dismantling its nuclear weapons programs, Seoul's  foreign minister said.
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North Korea wants bilateral nuclear talks  with the United States but would rejoin stalled six-party  immediately if Washington dropped what it called its "hostile  policy" toward Pyongyang, the communist state said on Friday.
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South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki Moon said Thursday that intelligence indicating a possible launch of a North Korean ballistic missile could set back diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis over Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions.
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South Korea pressed communist North Korea to redouble its reconciliation efforts Tuesday, as the estranged neighbors opened high-level talks amid rifts over the North's nuclear program and the South's delayed rice shipments.
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SEOGWIPO, South Korea  - The foreign ministers of South Korea, Japan and China meet on Sunday to try to smooth often prickly ties and help resolve the impasse over the nuclear weapons plans of their neighbor, North Korea.
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South Korea is pressing the United States to show greater flexibility in its efforts to restart nuclear disarmament talks with North Korea, the unification ministry said.
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South Korea's cooperation with the United Nations' nuclear watchdog over concerns about past atomic experiments should serve as an example to North Korea, the U.S. ambassador to Seoul said on Friday.
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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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While asserting that North Korea may be bluffing in claiming to have nuclear weapons, South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon urged Pyongyang to resume negotiations "as a responsible member of the international community."
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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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TOKYO - South Korea hopes to break the impasse over North Koreaâs nuclear ambitions through a bilateral summit meeting, according to an interview with South Korean Prime Minister Lee Hai-Chan published in Japan on Friday.
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South Korea's president said on Friday he sees the North Korean government as stable and wanting to resolve the nuclear issue to improve relations with the United States.
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South Korea is working with its  diplomatic partners to try to hold nuclear talks with North  Korea this month, but recent North Korean comments suggested no  grounds for optimism, the South's foreign minister said on  Friday. There are plans to hold a fourth round of nuclear  negotiations among the two Koreas, the United States, China,  Japan and Russia by the end of September as the countries  agreed at the previous session in June.
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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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South Korea welcomed on Sunday the North's invitation for a visit by a United Nations nuclear watchdog delegation, which could be a first step in Pyongyang's nuclear disarmament.