U.S. calls on North Korea to account for uranium
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The United States expects North Korea to fully account for its program to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons as a part of the deal it struck to start scrapping its atomic arms, a senior official said on Tuesday.
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UNITED NATIONS, New York North Korea says its effort to produce plutonium for nuclear weapons is meant to serve as a deterrent against increasing US nuclear threats and to prevent a nuclear war in northeast Asia.
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North Korea has not provided a full account of its nuclear program despite Pyongyang's statement asserting it already made a declaration required under a disarmament deal, U.S. officials said on Friday.
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Washington has urged Asian countries to call for denuclearization of the Korean peninsula while North Korean officials defended Pyongyang's development of nuclear weapons, at meetings this week in Manila.
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UNITED NATIONS -- North Korea has reprocessed the enriched uranium from 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods and used it for weapons to serve as a deterrent against a possible nuclear strike by the United States, a North Korean minister said yesterday. Warning that the danger of war on the Korean peninsula ''is snowballing,&quot; Vice Foreign Minister Choe Su Hon blamed ...
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South Korea's top nuclear negotiator urged North Korea Monday to "have the courage to tell the truth" about its suspected enriched uranium programme, which is slowing down a landmark disarmament process.
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The United States urged North Korea on Friday to give a full declaration of its nuclear activities after Pyongyang missed an end-2007 deadline for presenting the inventory under a disarmament-for-aid deal.
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North Korea says it plans to unload   fuel rods from its nuclear reactor to process plutonium in an   attempt to pressure the United States into bilateral talks, a   U.S. scholar just back from Pyongyang said on Saturday.
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The Bush administration is backing away from its long-held assertions that North Korea has an active clandestine program to enrich uranium, leading some experts to believe that the original U.S. intelligence that started the crisis over Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions may have been flawed.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell sought  South Korea's support on Tuesday for a U.S. hard line on  Pyongyang's nuclear programs as Seoul stepped up security along  its border with North Korea due to a suspected infiltration.
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A U.S. diplomat who heads to Pyongyang this week trying to push forward a stalled nuclear deal said on Tuesday that North Korea must give a complete account of its atomic arms program.
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South Korea's cooperation with the United Nations' nuclear watchdog over concerns about past atomic experiments should serve as an example to North Korea, the U.S. ambassador to Seoul said on Friday.
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A top South Korean official on Sunday urged the United States to engage diplomatically with North Korea to resolve a dispute over the North's nuclear weapons program, comparing such a policy to President Nixon's decision to recognize China in the 1970s.
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The United States should reexamine a  questionable charge that North Korea has a covert uranium  enrichment program, a key American complaint against Pyongyang  that could complicate the new nuclear weapons deal, experts  said on Wednesday.
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North Korea has reportedly said it plans to extract more plutonium for use in nuclear weapons.
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North Korea said on Friday it had already accounted for its nuclear arms program as required under an international disarmament deal -- an assertion quickly rejected by the United States, which urged Pyongyang to produce a declaration soon.
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Prizing stability above all, Seoul wants Washington to offer more incentives for North Korea's cooperation