N Korea demands return of remains
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Pyongyang says it wants Japan to return the human remains at the centre of a row over a missing woman.
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Japan and North Korea held a second day of talks Sunday in a dispute over Japanese nationals abducted by the North decades ago. Japan seized the occasion to express concern North
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SEOUL -- North Korea publicly admitted today for the first time that it has nuclear weapons, and its foreign ministry said it wouldn't return to six-nation talks aimed at persuading the communist country to abandon its nuclear ambitions
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Turning the tables on Tokyo, North Korea  has called on Japan to investigate the case of one of its  nationals who went missing in 1991 while working in Russia,  saying it presumed Japan had abducted him.
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Japan will respond ``severely&#39;&#39; to North Korea&#39;s failure to provide evidence there are no more Japanese abductees left alive in that country, said Hiroyuki Hosoda, Japan&#39;s chief government spokesman.
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Countries from China to Germany urged  North Korea on Friday to return to talks on ending its nuclear  programs after the communist state announced it had nuclear  weapons and had pulled out of disarmament discussions.
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North Korea&#39;s 2-year-old nuclear crisis has taxed the world&#39;s patience, the chief UN nuclear regulator said Wednesday, urging communist Pyongyang to return to its disarmament treaty obligations.
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell pressed North Korea on Sunday to return to nuclear disarmament talks even as he branded the communist country a &quot;terrorist state&quot; that has &quot;no respect for human rights.
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BEIJING - Japan pressed North Korea to provide fuller accounts of 10 Japanese who Tokyo says were abducted by the North in their second day of working-level talks Sunday, but the North did not provide new information in the morning session, Japan&#39;s
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Secretary of State Colin L. Powell joined with Japanese leaders today to appeal again to North Korea to resume the stalled negotiations over the future of its nuclear
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Remains believed to be those of U.S. soldiers have been recovered in North Korea and will be returned home this week a half century after the 1950-53 Korean War ended, the U.S. military said Thursday.
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BEIJING -- Long-stalled negotiations on dismantling North Korea's nuclear weapons program resumed yesterday in an atmosphere of pessimism, with Pyongyang insisting it must be regarded as a nuclear power and the United States demanding swift action to make the Korean Peninsula nuclear-free.
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Japan plans to lodge a strong protest with North Korea over a dispute tied to the communist state's abductions of Japanese citizens decades ago, a news report said Friday.
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N Korea is expected to ask the South to resume aid shipments, when officials from the two sides meet later.
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Leaders of Japan and South Korea strongly urged North Korea Friday to return to talks aimed at ending its nuclear weapons program.
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The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency is calling for North Korea to allow international experts into the country to completely verify that a large cloud recently spotted over the country was not caused by a nuclear explosion.
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Japan has protested to North Korea and threatened to cut food aid after an incident involving the ashes of a Japanese woman. Tokyo&#39;s has accused Pyongyang of handing over other people&#39;s ashes to prove the