North Korea cautions on hope for nuclear deal
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The prospect of initial steps toward ending North Korea's nuclear arms program brightened on Friday as negotiators considered a plan for Pyongyang to suspend operations at a nuclear plant within two months.
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North Korea and the United States appeared closer to a deal today that could, within weeks, start the process of shutting down the Northâs nuclear weapons program.
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The banking dispute holding up a North Korean nuclear weapons deal looked on Friday to be almost resolved but few expected it to prompt the hermit state to actually start dismantling its atomic armory any time soon.
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North Korea is ready to return to talks on ending its nuclear weapons program but still had difficult issues to iron out with the United States, Pyongyang's top envoy said on Tuesday.
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Negotiators on North Korea's nuclear programs engaged in intense diplomacy Saturday to resolve remaining hurdles to a deal that would see the communist state take its first real steps to disarm.
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The U.S. envoy was hopeful and his South Korean counterpart wary as delegates from six countries gathered on Thursday for talks aimed at dismantling North Korea's nuclear weapons program.
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Prospects of ending North Korea's  nuclear arms ambitions brightened a little on Friday as  negotiators considered a plan for Pyongyang to suspend  activities at a nuclear plant as a first step to dismantlement.
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North Korea appears increasingly willing to bargain over the terms of ending its nuclear programs, prompting cautious optimism that some sort of agreement may be reached when the six-nation disarmament talks reconvene next week in Beijing, U.S. and Asian officials close to the talks said.
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North Korea's delegate to six-party talks on its nuclear weapons program said on Friday there had been agreement on some issues with the United States.
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SEOUL South Korean officials expressed hope Thursday that North Korea would return to six-party talks designed to resolve the country&#39;s nuclear weapons issues.
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South Korea is sceptical about reaching a substantive agreement at the next round of six-party talks aimed at dismantling North Korea&#39;s nuclear programmes, Seoul&#39;s top negotiator to the talks said today.
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The United States and North Korea held "lengthy and substantive" talks on Tuesday, offering a glimmer of hope that six-party negotiations aimed at dismantling the North's nuclear programs may yield progress.
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North Korea will find it difficult to return to nuclear talks if the United States keeps insisting that Pyongyang renounce peaceful as well as military atomic activities, the North&#39;s main newspaper said on Tuesday.
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BEIJING -- International talks on North Korea's nuclear program convene today with a new sense of optimism about the possibility of the first tangible progress on the communist nation's disarmament since negotiations began more than three years ago.
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North Korea is willing to take initial  steps toward ending its nuclear arms program, South Korean  officials said after six-party talks opened on Thursday,  hinting at rare progress in talks which have ended in stalemate  for years.
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The US and China express hope that North Korea will return to nuclear talks, despite no progress in September.
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North Korea has said it may be willing to give up its nuclear weapons, as fresh six-nation talks began amid warnings that four years of tough diplomacy on Pyongyang was now at a crossroads.