EU urges NKorea to quickly end nuclear weapons program
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The European Union, Japan, the United States and other world powers Wednesday urged North Korea to swiftly dismantle its nuclear weapons program, in statements at a meeting of the UN atomic watchdog.
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With speculation mounting of a North Korean nuclear test as early as this weekend, a unanimous U.N. Security Council urged the secretive, communist nation Friday to abandon all atomic weapons as it promised last year and cancel plans to detonate a device. Japan hinted the North could face sanctions or possible military action.
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North Korea's two-year-old nuclear crisis  has taxed the world's patience, the chief United Nations  nuclear regulator said on Wednesday, urging communist Pyongyang  to return to its disarmament treaty obligations.
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International Atomic Energy Agency monitors will leave Vienna on Thursday for North Korea to verify a pledge by Pyongyang to shut down its atomic bomb program, the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said on Thursday.
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North Korea could be ready to begin shutting its plutonium reactor within weeks, the envoy said.
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North Korea should move quickly to shut down its source of bomb-grade plutonium, a top U.S. envoy said on Tuesday, voicing hope that stalled six-party talks on scrapping its nuclear arms program could resume in early July.
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North Korea will abandon its nuclear programs only if other countries create a welcoming political environment and remove the threats that Pyongyang claims pushed it to develop its atomic arsenal, South Korea's main nuclear envoy said Friday.
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The United States, the EU and Russia  urged Iran Monday to comply with the U.N. nuclear watchdog's  demand that it halt all activities linked to uranium  enrichment, a process that can be used to build an atom bomb.
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US envoy Christopher Hill says North Korea should disable its nuclear facilities by the end of February.
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VIENNA -- European Union powers yesterday urged Iran to embrace a UN idea of a "timeout" from nuclear activity they fear could yield atom bombs, saying sanctions they sponsored against Tehran would be simultaneously suspended.
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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 foreign ministers of Britain and Germany on Tuesday urged Iran to indefinitely suspend its nuclear program and avoid a showdown next month with the UN nuclear agency.
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Challenged by the UN nuclear chief to prove their nuclear programs are peaceful, North Korea said it would scrap its &quot;nuclear deterrence&quot; if the US ended its hostile policy and Iran said negotiations with three European countries may &quot;bring fruit.
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UN nuclear chief Mohamed ElBaradei urged Iran on Monday to suspend uranium enrichment and called on North Korea to dismantle its weapons program or at least allow inspectors to ensure it is &quot;exclusively peaceful.
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The United States urged reclusive North Korea to get out of the "nuclear business" on Thursday and said it will not accept Pyongyang as a nuclear power.
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The U.N. Security Council urged North Korea to abandon its planned nuclear test and warned Pyongang of unspecified consequences if it goes ahead, in a statement adopted unanimously on Friday.
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Challenged by the UN nuclear chief to prove their atomic programs are peaceful, North Korea said it would scrap its &quot;nuclear deterrence&quot; if the United States ended its hostile policy and Iran said negotiations with three European countries may &quot;bring fruit