Next SKorea leader pledges dialogue with NKorea
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South Korea's next president said Thursday he will try hard to persuade North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons and offered the communist state a dramatic rise in living standards in return.
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North Korea will not dismantle its nuclear programs or improve ties with South Korea until questions about the South's nuclear experiments are clearly answered, Pyongyang said on Sunday.
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South Korea's president said on Friday he sees the North Korean government as stable and wanting to resolve the nuclear issue to improve relations with the United States.
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The top U.S. negotiator on North Korea's nuclear program said Thursday he hopes six nations meeting in China next week will be able to take the first concrete steps toward eventual dismantling of the communist nation's nuclear weapons.
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North Korea is prepared to return to six-country talks on its nuclear weapons program at any time now that it has "completed defensive steps" with a nuclear test, a senior envoy of the communist state said on Tuesday.
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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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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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The conservative president-elect of South Korea said that he was willing to meet with the North Korean leader to discuss the Northâs nuclear weapons programs.
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The new U.S. lead negotiator for six-party talks on North Korean nuclear programs Tuesday stressed diplomacy to defuse the crisis as Seoul pledged the status quo on its policy of engagement with the communist state.
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North and South Korea will resume high-level talks this month following a landmark nuclear deal
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il told a visiting Chinese delegation there was no change in his nation's stance on a deadlocked nuclear disarmament deal, Chinese state media said Thursday.
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South Korea's foreign minister sought to cement his front-runner status in the race to succeed Kofi Annan as UN chief, vowing that if elected he would try to make the world body leaner and more efficient.
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BEIJING, China -- North Korea is committed to holding six-party talks aimed at resolving the crisis over its nuclear weapons program, British Foreign Office minister Bill Rammell said Tuesday, Reuters reported.
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The lead U.S. negotiator with North  Korea said on Friday he expected to attend six-party talks on  ending Pyongyang&#39;s atomic programs next week despite reports  Syria might have received North Korean nuclear aid.
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North Korea's No. 2 leader has told China that his country still regards six-nation talks on the dispute over its nuclear program as the best way to reach a solution, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said Tuesday.
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South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun said yesterday he expected only slow progress in the six-nation talks to end Pyongyang&#39;s nuclear ambitions but retained hopes for a diplomatic resolution.
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A U.S. diplomat will visit Pyongyang  this week to try to push forward a stalled deal under which  North Korea promised to disclose all its nuclear programs and  eventually abandon them, a U.S. official said on Monday.