S.Korea shrugs off North&#39;s criticism on atomic issue
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South Korea has shrugged off North Korean criticism of the South&#39;s experiments with nuclear materials as familiar posturing that would not rule out the mercurial communist North&#39;s return to atomic arms talks.
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South Korea's foreign minister on Thursday said he was confident that investigations by a U.N. nuclear watchdog will prove his country's nuclear experiments were not conducted for weapons advancement.
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North Korea rejected the United Statesâ demand for a more thorough account on whether it has tried to enrich uranium for atomic weapons.
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The head of the UN nuclear watchdog said in Seoul Wednesday that South Korea&#39;s past nuclear experiments did not violate international agreements.
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South Korea's top nuclear energy official on Tuesday  denied claims that scientists in his country had produced near-bomb-grade uranium, seeking to ease concern that the previously undisclosed experiments were in apparent violation of international law.
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North Korea on Tuesday denied reports that it was helping Syria to develop nuclear weapons and insisted it was keeping an earlier pledge not to allow the transfer of nuclear materials.
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While the world frets over whether North Korea will conduct a nuclear test, the reclusive state's media on Sunday ignored the topic, focusing instead on ecstatic praise of their leader on the anniversary of his rise to power.
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South Korea's top policymaker on North  Korea said Monday North Korea's claim to have nuclear weapons  was unproven and Seoul's controversial engagement policy with  the North would remain, at least for now.
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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 Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun says a peaceful approach to solving North Korea&#39;s nuclear threat is preferred over the more forceful action advocated by some hard-liners in the United States.
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PYONGYANG (KCNA-Yonhap) - North Korea said on Monday it will never abandon its nuclear weapons program, taking issue with a series of nuclear-material experiments conducted in South Korea in the past.
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South Korea sees no need to rush into a  further round of talks on the North's nuclear weapons  ambitions, President Roh Moo-hyun said on Wednesday.
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North Korea said Monday that it will not give up nuclear development in light of unauthorized nuclear experiments by South Korea, where U.N. inspectors nuclear inspectors were conducting an investigation.
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North Korea's declaration that it  possesses nuclear weapons does not make it a nuclear weapons  state, South Korean Unification Minister Chung Dong-young said  on Monday.
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North Korea says it can "never dismantle" its nuclear arsenal while US policy towards it remains hostile.
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South Korea&#39;s nuclear and uranium experiments that were conducted years ago are under scrutiny at the International Atomic Energy Agency.
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North Korea has not changed its mind about ending its nuclear programme, leader Kim Jong-il reportedly says.