US law promises help to N Koreans
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President Bush signs a law offering support for human rights groups in North Korea and refugees who leave.
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North Korea has agreed to allow US investigators to search for the remains of more than 2,000 members of the US armed forces missing in action from the Korean War, US officials said.
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North Korea's military calls for direct talks with the US, to discuss security on the Korean peninsula.
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The US government urged North Korea Sunday to make "a complete and correct declaration" of its nuclear program as an end-of-year deadline loomed under an agreement by key powers.
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November 25, 2004 ã¡ WASHINGTON â A senior expert on Korean affairs at the US State Department said the US government supports Seoul&#39;s efforts to harmonize relations with Pyeongyang through such projects as the Gaeseong industrial complex in North Korea
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TOKYO -- Responding to Sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins's pledge to surrender after spending four decades in North Korea, US military officials say they are ready to put the frail 64-year-old back in uniform, give him a haircut, set him up in on-base housing -- and then try him for desertion.
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The United States said it was planning more one-on-one talks with North Korea in a push to make progress in multinational negotiations aimed at dismantling North Korea's nuclear program.
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The US agrees to stagger a troop withdrawal from South Korea, due to fears about the North.
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North Korea appears to have met the legal criteria to be removed from the U.S. state sponsors of terrorism list although this also depends on its progress on denuclearization, a U.S. official said on Tuesday.
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US Vice President Dick Cheney promised Thursday to help the parents of a Japanese girl abducted by North Korea in the 1970s as the emotionally charged row cast a shadow over a nuclear deal with Pyongyang.
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The United States is moving to impose sanctions on North Korea for test-launching a series of missiles in July, a senior South Korean official said Tuesday.
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North Korea has urged the U.N. refugee  agency and the Red Cross to help stop the exodus of its  citizens to South Korea after the secret airlift of some 460  North Koreans to Seoul in July, a North Korean newspaper said.
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North Korea will receive its first promised shipment of energy aid next week, South Korea said Wednesday, a day after Pyongyang's reclusive leader urged progress in a deal to dismantle his country's nuclear programs.
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The United States said Tuesday it wants North Korea to move beyond an initial agreement to shut down its main plutonium-producing nuclear reactor and "come clean" about any program the communist nation has to enrich uranium.
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North Korea replies to President Bush's letter to Kim Jong-il, vowing to honour its pledge on a nuclear deal.
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US envoy Christopher Hill says the US will persevere in talks with N Korea, as he begins a regional tour.
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The United States expressed condolences to North Korea's losses of life and homes in widespread flooding and offered to discuss with Kim Jong Il's government provision of "a significant food aid package, including monitoring procedures."