Diplomats hopeful ahead of U.S.-North Korea talks
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A top U.S. diplomat said on Friday weekend talks between the United States and North Korea may signal whether the push to end Pyongyang's nuclear programs was beginning to gather speed.
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North Korea hosted U.S. envoys at its mission in Geneva on Sunday for the second and final day of talks aimed at smoothing relations between the 1950-53 Korean War opponents and speeding up Pyongyang's nuclear disarmament.
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Talks and fuel aid aimed at coaxing North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons program could move ahead in coming weeks, the U.S. nuclear envoy said on Sunday, welcoming Pyongyang's invitation to U.N. inspectors.
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U.S. nuclear envoy Christopher Hill said Sunday he hopes inspectors from the U.N. nuclear watchdog will be able to visit North Korea soon after a breakthrough in a snarled disarmament process.
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Six-party negotiations on closing Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program resumed on Thursday, with hopes raised for agreement on first steps after milestone talks between U.S. and North Korean envoys in Berlin last month.
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Envoys to North Korean disarmament talks began gathering Wednesday, and the chief U.S. negotiator said he expected "hard bargaining" over new proposals to get the North to abandon its nuclear programs.
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The chief U.S. envoy in nuclear disarmament talks with North Korea said on Monday he hopes moves toward ending Pyongyang's nuclear armament program can return to a tight timeline now that a banking dispute has been settled.
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Senior U.S. and North Korean  officials plan to meet in Beijing on Wednesday as they try to  prepare for fresh multilateral talks on ending Pyongyang's  pursuit of nuclear arms, the State Department said on Tuesday.
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North Korea's top nuclear envoy will hold talks with officials in the United States in the coming weeks as part of a deal this month to end Pyongyang's atomic program, the State Department said.
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The United States and North Korea wrapped up historic talks on establishing diplomatic ties on an optimistic note Tuesday but the U.S. wants Pyongyang to "come clean" about any uranium enrichment program and eliminate all nuclear weapons before normalizing relations.
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North Korea on Saturday said its U.N. diplomats met U.S. officials in New York twice in the past week but concluded that Pyongyang should hold off on nuclear negotiations until the U.S. administration changes its "hostile" policy toward the country.
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U.S. and North Korean officials started talks on Monday aimed at eventually normalizing diplomatic ties as part of an agreement under which Pyongyang has pledged to scrap its nuclear arms programs in exchange for aid.
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SEOUL, June 21 -- The chief U.S. nuclear envoy was making his first trip to North Korea on Thursday ahead of the expected resumption of talks on halting Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program, the State Department said.
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Six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear programme are poised to resume, with hopes high for some progress.
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The White House said on Wednesday it was hopeful North Korea would return very soon to six-party nuclear talks and that the proposal it made last year should be the starting point to resolve the crisis.
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US and North Korean envoys have dug in for a second day of tough negotiations laying the groundwork for a resumption of six-nation talks aimed at ending Pyongyang's nuclear arms program.
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Top North Korea and US envoys meet to discuss reviving six-party talks on Pyongyang's nuclear plans.