South Korea's chief nuclear negotiator leaves for Japan
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South Korea's top nuclear negotiator left for Japan to discuss ways to break a deadlock in six-nation talks on North Korea's nuclear weapons programs, officials said.
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South Korea said on Wednesday it saw no signs that North Korea has begun shutting the reactor at the heart of its nuclear weapons ambitions, as diplomats headed to Beijing to push forward a nascent disarmament deal.
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North and South Korea are restoring ties during talks this week following the communist country's pledge to shut down its nuclear reactor
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North Korea's chief nuclear envoy looked set on Tuesday to make a rare trip to the United States while South Korea sent a top official to Pyongyang to persuade the North to quickly start scrapping its nuclear arms program.
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The chief inspector of the United Nation's nuclear watchdog arrived in China on Monday on his way to North Korea, where he hopes to arrange the return of an IAEA team to monitor Pyongyang's promised reactor shutdown.
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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder left China for Japan where he will hold talks with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and have an audience with the emperor.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe left on Sunday for a summit with Chinese leaders at which he will seek a thaw in ties chilled by the wartime past, and consult on North Korea's nuclear threat.
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Former Taiwan president Lee Teng-hui  left for Japan on Monday on a controversial visit that has  sparked furious protests from China.
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This week's talks between Japan and North  Korea show efforts to hold more six-party talks on the North's  nuclear plans are gathering pace and most countries want a  meeting before the year ends, South Korea said on Wednesday.
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Â·  Chief negotiator resigns after rift on strategyÂ·   Doubts surround future of foreign minister
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The powerful chairman of South Korea's ruling Uri Party, Shin Ki Nam, resigned Thursday in the wake of revelations that his father was a collaborator during Japan's occupation of the Korean peninsula from 1910 to 1945.
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Four people believed to have fled North Korea arrived at a port in northern Japan in a small boat on Saturday and later told police they want to go to South Korea, Kyodo news agency reported.
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MANO, SADO ISLAND, Japan  - A former U.S. army  sergeant who deserted to North Korea four decades ago left a  U.S. military base near Tokyo on Tuesday to head for a new life  with his family in his Japanese wife's hometown.
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Japanese Defense Minister Fumio Kyuma said on Tuesday he would resign over remarks that appeared to accept the 1945 U.S. atomic bombings of two Japanese cities, dealing another blow to the ruling camp ahead of an election this month.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will leave here February 23 for South Korea, China and Japan as part of diplomatic efforts to scrap North Korea's nuclear arms program, her spokesman said Friday.
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The U.N. nuclear watchdog chief left for  North Korea on Sunday to broker a return of inspectors to the  secretive Stalinist state under a precarious six-party pact to  dismantle its atomic bomb program.
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Â· South Korea's president forces promise at summit Â· Kim Jong-il told to give up nuclear programme