Hard work yet to come on North Korea nuclear deal
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Chief U.S. negotiator Christopher Hill  cautioned on Wednesday that difficult work remained to  implement the breakthrough energy-for-arms agreement with North  Korea.
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BEIJING - Foreign diplomats who visited the site of a mysterious explosion in North Korea said yesterday it was a hydroelectric project under heavy construction.
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After securing the shutdown of a North Korean nuclear reactor, negotiators gathering in Beijing on Tuesday face the much harder task of coaxing Pyongyang to give up a trove of atomic secrets long guarded as vital for its survival.
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The path to disarming North Korea of its nuclear weapons will prove much harder than clearing a deadlock over its funds that took nearly two years, South Korea's chief nuclear envoy was quoted as saying on Friday.
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Chief U.S. negotiator Christopher Hill cautioned on Wednesday that difficult work remained to implement an energy-for-arms agreement with North Korea.
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Though uncertainty still surrounds prospects for a fourth session of six-party talks on the North Korean nuclear issue, the United States appears to be making greater efforts toward
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North Korea's two-year-old nuclear crisis  has taxed the world's patience, the chief United Nations  nuclear regulator said on Wednesday, urging communist Pyongyang  to return to its disarmament treaty obligations.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has still not decided whether to give up his nuclear weapons despite a disarmament pledge under an international deal, a senior analyst said Wednesday.
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The top U.S. negotiator in bruising nuclear disarmament talks with North Korea said on Tuesday he saw no progress yet and urged Pyongyang to come to the table with a realistic offer and a festive spirit.
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U.S. envoy Christopher Hill said there was much work to be done at Wednesday's new round of six-party talks on reining in North Korea's nuclear program but held out the hope of agreeing to a disarmament schedule.
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BEIJING/KUALA LUMPUR  - Envoys in Beijing on Wednesday worked towards a deal to press North Korea to disable nuclear facilities by the end of the year, while the U.N. atomic watchdog confirmed a key atomic complex was now locked.
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The north's invitation to nuclear inspectors is welcomed, but the US and S. Korea say more steps are needed to comply with February's six-party accord.
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North Korea appears to have started complying with a recent nuclear disarmament agreement, but U.S. intelligence officials are telling skeptical lawmakers they will continue to watch the country's actions closely.
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Sometimes high diplomacy depends on simple math. Take the North Korean nuclear deal, which was reached in Beijing on Feb. 13. Under a side agreement, the United States promised to resolve within 30 days a Treasury Department case that had frozen North Korean funds at a bank in Macau suspected of...
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North Korea warned that it would slow work to disable its main nuclear complex at Yongbyon, north of Pyongyang, because of delays in deliveries of aid.
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BEIJING -- A last-minute snag yesterday over the amount and timing of assistance to North Korea dampened hopes at six-nation talks for a landmark deal aimed at locking Pyongyang into firm steps toward nuclear disarmament.
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Prospects for an initial agreement on ending North Korea's nuclear arms program were clouded on Sunday as talks entered a fourth day without an accord on how to compensate Pyongyang for moving to disarm.