North Korea 'makes weapon pledge'
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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 on Thursday publicly acknowledged for the first time that it had tested missiles and vowed to continue launching them, threatening to &quot;take stronger physical actions&quot; against opponents of the tests.
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PYONGYANG (KCNA-Yonhap) - North Korea said on Monday it will never abandon its nuclear weapons program, taking issue with a series of nuclear-material experiments conducted in South Korea in the past.
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A timeline of nuclear weapons development in North Korea:
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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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North Korea said on Friday it had given an account of its nuclear arms program as required in an international disarmament deal, while separately threatening to boost "war deterrent".
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Excerpts from an English-language statement released Thursday by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on its nuclear weapons program and relations with the United States. The North Korean government refers to the country as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, or the DPRK.
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After months of mixed signals, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il says his country has nuclear weapons. Here's how the U.S. hopes to persuade him to give them up
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It has become increasingly apparent that North Korea has no intention of giving up its aspirations for nuclear arms no matter what concessions the US, South Korea and Japan offer, a conclusion
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North Korea on Saturday said that it has the right to test and deploy missiles, as the communist state vowed to increase its &quot;self-defence&quot; capabilities against the United States.
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North Korea is well practiced in getting some of what it wants through provocation. Bullying through a bullhorn has worked time and again for a small nation with an outsized military force and an even bigger capacity for bluster and threat.
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NORTH Korea has turned the enriched uranium from 8000 spent nuclear fuel rods into weapons to serve as a deterrent against a possible nuclear strike by the US, a senior minister says.
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North Korea's declaration that it  possesses nuclear weapons does not make it a nuclear weapons  state, South Korean Unification Minister Chung Dong-young said  on Monday.
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North Korea declared Thursday that it had produced nuclear weapons to defend itself from the U.S. and that it had suspended participation in multinational talks to halt its arms program.
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North Korea is to conduct a nuclear test for what it calls self-defence measures, the foreign ministry says.
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North Korea has turned the enriched uranium from 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods into weapons to serve as a deterrent against a possible nuclear strike by the United States, a North Korean minister said Monday.
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North Korea said on Saturday it will not abandon its nuclear programmes until the United States gives up what Pyongyang regards as a "hostile" policy toward it and drops financial restrictions imposed last year.