NKorea calls off scheduled Japan talks in Vietnam
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North Korea called off scheduled talks with Japan in Hanoi set for Wednesday afternoon and aimed at normalising relations between the two countries, an official at Pyongyang's embassy said.
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North Korea ruled out on Thursday any multi-party talks on its nuclear weapons programs until South Korea's recently disclosed past atomic experiments have been fully explained.
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North Korea declined a request to resume talks aimed at persuading the communist nation to abandon its nuclear weapons program, Japan&#39;s government spokesman Hiroyuki Hosoda said.
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Japan urged North Korea on yesterday to return to six-way talks on the North&#39;s nuclear weapons program in a third day of meetings focusing on the fate of missing Japanese citizens kidnapped by Northern spies, Japanese officials said.
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North Korea on Wednesday abruptly canceled groundbreaking test runs of trains across its highly guarded border with South Korea, citing an atmosphere of confrontation.
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Talks on North Korea's nuclear programme face problems over Pyongyang's energy demands, Japan says.
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North Korea declared on Thursday for the  first time that it possessed nuclear weapons and said it was  suspending participation in six-way talks on dismantling its  nuclear programs for an indefinite period.
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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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South Korea and the United States closed  a round of defense talks in Seoul on Friday aimed at scheduling  a reduction of U.S. troops on the Korean peninsula without  agreeing on the timeline of the realignment.
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Japan and North Korea held a second day of talks Sunday in a dispute over Japanese nationals abducted by the North decades ago. Japan seized the occasion to express concern North
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North Korea hinted on Friday at breaking off talks with Japan over the fate of Japanese citizens abducted decades ago, saying Pyongyang no longer sees significance in maintaining contact.
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The United States, South Korea and Japan have agreed to suspend work on the construction of nuclear reactors in North Korea for a second year but stopped short of scrapping the project, a Japanese newspaper said on Monday.
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Japan and China will not hold bilateral talks at an upcoming ASEAN meeting, a Japanese official says, in a sign of continuing tensions between the two.
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SEOUL: North Korea said on Saturday it would not return to international talks on its nuclear weapons programme until the line-up of a new US administration emerges and Washington drops its âhostile policyâ toward the communist state.
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Japanese officials, arriving in Washington on Thursday for a historic meeting between the Group of Seven (G7) nations and China, distanced themselves from US demands for a review of China&#39;s currency policy.
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North Korea hinted on Friday at breaking  off talks with Japan over the fate of Japanese citizens  abducted decades ago, saying Pyongyang no longer sees  significance in maintaining contact.
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Pyongyang postpones rail talks with Seoul, in a possible sign of unease over South Korea's incoming leadership.