N.Korea plans to process plutonium to pressure U.S. -scholar
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North Korea says it plans to unload  fuel rods from its nuclear reactor to process plutonium in an  attempt to pressure the United States into bilateral talks, a  U.S. scholar just back from Pyongyang said on Saturday.
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South Korea's cooperation with the United  Nations' nuclear watchdog over concerns about past atomic  experiments should serve as an example to North Korea, the U.S.  ambassador to Seoul said on Friday.
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Experts from America, Russia and China will travel to North Korea later this month to study how the country's nuclear facilities can be shut down, a US official says.
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The United States should use  incentives to entice North Korea to scrap its nuclear programs,  including a "buyout" pegging aid to the amount of plutonium  Pyongyang surrenders, a panel of experts said.
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North Korea says it has turned the plutonium from 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods into nuclear weapons to serve as a deterrent against increasing U.S. nuclear threats and to prevent a nuclear war in northeast Asia.
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The United States expects North Korea to shut down within three weeks the reactor at the heart of its atomic weapons program, top U.S. nuclear envoy Christopher Hill said on Saturday.
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North Korea offered to meet a U.S. request that it declare and disable its nuclear programs by the end of the year, South Korea said Wednesday, indicating its will to comply with a disarmament pledge after shutting down its sole operating reactor.
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The chief U.S. envoy to North Korean nuclear talks called Tuesday for rapid progress in shutting down Pyongyang's bomb-making reactor when U.N. nuclear inspectors visit the communist nation next week.
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North Korea could be ready to begin shutting its plutonium reactor within weeks, the envoy said.
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North Korea cautioned after closing a nuclear reactor that produces weapons-grade plutonium that further disarmament progress would require the United States and Japan to end "hostile policies."
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U.N. nuclear officials arrived in North Korea on Tuesday to negotiate terms for inspectors to confirm the shutdown of Pyongyang's nuclear reactor and source of bomb-grade plutonium.
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North Korea has enough plutonium to build an estimated four to eight crude nuclear warheads that could potentially be mounted on medium-range missiles, a Washington-based think tank said.
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North Korea is prepared to extend wide cooperation to the International Atomic Energy Agency in its mission to help shut down Pyongyang's weapons-capable nuclear facilities, an IAEA report made available Tuesday to The Associated Press suggests.
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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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THE United Nationsâ chief weapons inspector says North Korea poses a serious challenge to attempts to limit the worldâs nuclear weapons.
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North Korea can make a nuclear warhead that can be mounted on missiles capable of hitting all of South Korea and most of Japan, U.S. nuclear experts said in a report obtained on Wednesday.
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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.