Sen. calls for direct talks with N. Korea
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Leaders of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said Sunday the Bush administration should talk directly with North Korea as concerns grow over a possible test launch of a missile that could reach the U.S.
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A dispute has erupted between Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and conservative lawmakers over her pursuit of diplomacy with North Korea.
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A senior U.S. congressman has urged  leaders of North Korea to re-engage in six-party discussions on  its nuclear programs and ended a visit saying on Tuesday he was  optimistic that Pyongyang was ready to talk.
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Washington remains committed to multiparty talks with North Korea over its nuclear weapons, despite the launch this month of missiles seen as a direct challenge to Washington and its allies, the US pointman on North Korea has said.
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A U.S. congressman traveling to North Korea Saturday said he will discuss the communist regime's nuclear program and human rights issues during talks with officials in Pyongyang.
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The president of the UN General Assembly has told South Korea&#39;s president in Seoul that North Korea urgently wants to resume talks on dismantling its nuclear weapons program.
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North Korea called Wednesday for direct talks with the United States over a potential missile test, but the Bush administration rejected the overture, saying threats aren&#039;t the way to seek dialogue.
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A senior North Korean official said his   country plans to unload fuel rods from a nuclear reactor to   obtain more plutonium for weapons and pressure Washington for   direct talks, a visiting U.S. scholar said on Saturday.
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South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun has  called on the United States to try dialogue with North Korea  rather than take a hard-line approach in its efforts to  persuade Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons program.
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North Korea needs to take concrete steps toward dismantling its nuclear weapons program at six-way talks next week in China, the chief U.S. envoy to the discussions said on Saturday.
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North Korea wants bilateral nuclear talks  with the United States but would rejoin stalled six-party  immediately if Washington dropped what it called its "hostile  policy" toward Pyongyang, the communist state said on Friday.
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The chief U.S. negotiator on North  Korea will hold discussions in Japan and China in the next few  days aimed at organizing a fresh round of six-party talks on  dismantling Pyongyang's nuclear programs, a State Department  official said on Tuesday.
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SEOUL, South Korea  -- North Korea's military proposed Friday holding direct talks with U.S. forces, an unusual plea amid recent progress on the nuclear standoff between the two countries.
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A group of U.S. Congressmen met with North Korea's foreign minister in Pyongyang on Wednesday, the communist state's official news agency said, in an effort to persuade the North to rejoin talks on its nuclear weapons ambitions.
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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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South Korea&#39;s foreign minister called Tuesday &quot;for a more creative and realistic&quot; proposal that would lure North Korea back to six-nation talks over its nuclear program.
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North Korea is proposing holding military talks with the United States, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Friday, less than a week before a new round of talks on Pyongyang's nuclear arms program is due to begin.