W. House: U.S. not making lethal threat to N.Korea
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The United States was not making "a lethal threat" when an envoy warned North Korea that it could not have both a future and a nuclear weapon, the White House said on Thursday.
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The United States will not live with a nuclear-armed North Korea, Assistant Secretary of State Chris Hill said on Wednesday.
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The United States wants a diplomatic initiative to end the crisis over North Korea&#39;s nuclear program. However, a US official has dismissed any idea that Washington is about to soften its stance.
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Secretary of State-designate  Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday sent North Korea a two-pronged  message, insisting the United States has no plans to invade the  isolated communist state but stressing it does have a deterrent  against hostile actions by Pyongyang.
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The U.S. Defense Department on  Wednesday notified Congress it plans to provide technical and  logistics support for South Korea's reconnaissance and  intelligence operations as it faces a standoff with North Korea  about its nuclear weapons program.
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The United States has assumed since  the mid-1990s that North Korean is able to make nuclear  weapons, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday,  playing down a dramatic announcement from Pyongyang.
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The White House said Wednesday that North Korea's nuclear initiative is a threat to world peace and urged the secretive regime in Pyongyang to resume talks aimed at ending the program.
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The United States urged North Korea Tuesday 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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The United States will not sweeten its aid-for-disarmament offer to North Korea in a bid to end the Stalinist state&#39;s nuclear weapons drive, US Secretary of State Colin Powell said.
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As questions emerge over whether a large explosion last week in North Korea was nuclear-related, top US officials do not think it was a nuclear test.
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The United States does not intend to strike Iran to force it to stop supplying Shi'ite groups with weapons technology to kill U.S. troops in Iraq, a senior U.S. official said.
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The United States on Thursday played down an earlier warning to North Korea over that country's plans for a nuclear test, saying it was not threatening Pyongyang with "lethal" action.
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The Bush administration said on Wednesday there was no specific, credible terrorism threat against the United States and denied that an emergency meeting had been called.
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WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration is willing to hold limited face-to-face talks with North Korea and will continue to help feed the country, but will not sweeten a proposed trade of economic concessions for a halt in development of nuclear weapons, the US ambassador to South Korea said yesterday.
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The United States will not sweeten its aid-for-disarmament offer to North Korea in a bid to end the Stalinist state's nuclear weapons drive, US Secretary of State Colin Powell said.
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The United States does not believe that a large explosion in North Korea was related to the communist country's suspected nuclear weapons program, President Bush's foreign policy advisers said Sunday.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza  Rice said on Tuesday Washington would not set a deadline to  reach a deal in six-party talks on North Korea but made clear  next week's negotiations must not be held just for the sake of  talking.