N.Korea puts atom monitors' return on hold over funds
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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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Japan kept up the pressure on North Korea over its nuclear weapons and missiles and expressed concern about the lack of transparency on China's burgeoning military spending in a government defense paper published on Friday.
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Pyongyang will not meet target for disabling key reactor and revealing nuclear programmes, diplomats say
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Most of the North Korean funds long frozen in a Macau bank have been transferred, media reports said on Thursday, raising the prospect of an end to the deadlock stalling a nuclear disarmament deal with Pyongyang.
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The transfer of North Korean funds that have been frozen in a Macau bank is to begin on Thursday, Japan's Kyodo news agency said, possibly breaking a deadlock that has stalled a nuclear disarmament deal with Pyongyang.
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A financial dispute that has held up North Korea's pledge to shut down its nuclear reactor could be nearing a breakthrough after a news report that the long-awaited transfer of frozen North Korean funds will start Thursday
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The White House said Wednesday that it was "skeptical" that North Korea would ever give a full accounting of its nuclear programs after the Stalinist regime missed a December 31 deadline to do so.
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The U.N. nuclear watchdog's governing body on Monday authorized the dispatch of monitors to North Korea to verify a promised shutdown of its atom bomb program, diplomats said.
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PYONGYANG, North Korea -- Western diplomats trying to verify what triggered a massive mushroom cloud in North Korea have had a state-approved trip to the site delayed for &quot;logistical reasons.
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Most of the North Korean funds long  frozen in a Macau bank have been transferred, an official said  on Thursday, raising the prospect of an end to the deadlock  stalling a nuclear disarmament deal with Pyongyang.
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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 United States suspects that about $3 million in U.N. Development Program funds may have been diverted by North Korea to buy property in Britain, Canada and France, allegations denied by the agency.
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WASHINGTON A top Bush administration official says North Korea is stalling talks on its nuclear weapons program until after the November elections.
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North Korea says it will not return to stalled talks on its nuclear programme until the US clarifies its position.
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About $3 million in United Nations money intended to help impoverished North Koreans was diverted by the Pyongyang government toward the purchase of property in France, the United Kingdom and Canada, according to a confidential State Department account of witness reports and internal business rec...
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The transfer of N Korean funds frozen in Macau, a key issue in nuclear talks, will soon begin, media says.
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South Korea on Friday delayed a full resumption of aid shipments to North Korea until the communist regime shuts down its main atomic reactor