U.N. Closes N. Korea Development Office
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UNITED NATIONS, March 5 -- The U.N. Development Program has suspended its operations in North Korea, saying it cannot carry them out under guidelines that prohibit payments in foreign currency and the employment of local workers handpicked by the North Korean government.
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U.N. nuclear watchdog officials reached an "understanding" with North Korea on verification of the shutdown and sealing of the North's Yongbyon reactor, Kyodo news agency said on Friday.
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The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a call for North Korea to abandon plans to test a nuclear bomb, which Japan said could be exploded this weekend.
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North Korea says there will be no more bilateral talks with South Korea unless the South&#39;s secret nuclear experiments are thoroughly investigated.
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North Korea Saturday invited UN atomic inspectors to discuss the shutdown of its reactor, saying a banking dispute which had blocked a nuclear disarmament pact is almost over.
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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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The U.N. Development Program said Monday it suspended its operations in North Korea because the country failed to agree to changes in operational practices in response to U.S. allegations that U.N. money was being diverted to Kim Jong Il's regime.
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A visit by U.N. nuclear monitors to North Korea set for next week has been put on hold, a North Korean official said on Thursday, clouding hopes Pyongyang would start shutting down its atom bomb program soon.
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U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and other staffers will have to shift their offices to the lawn in front of the organization's hulking headquarters while workers renovate and clean up the 55-year-old landmark building, the director of the project said Monday.
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The U.N. nuclear watchdog has reached an "understanding" with North Korea on verification of the shutdown and sealing of the North's Yongbyon reactor, Kyodo news agency said on Friday.
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The Security Council voted Friday to immediately close down the U.N. inspection bodies that played a pivotal role in monitoring Iraq's unconventional weapons programs under Saddam Hussein.
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The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Monday that moving forward to inspect and close facilities behind North Korea's nuclear weapons program would be complex as the two sides seek to rebuild severed ties.
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North Korea said today it would begin to shut down its main nuclear facility after a dispute over frozen funds was resolved.
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BEIJING, July 15 -- After four years of off-and-on negotiations, North Korea said it began closing down its main nuclear reactor Saturday, shortly after receiving a first boatload of fuel oil aid.
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The United Nations nuclear watchdog confirmed today that North Korea had shut down all the remaining facilities at its main nuclear complex after the recent closure of its sole working reactor.
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The suspension of United Nations Development Program (UNDP) operations in North Korea will not affect the work of other UN agencies there, a UNDP spokesman said here Monday.
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The US says it has been told by North Korea that it has closed its nuclear reactor at Yongbyon.