Seoul doubts North Korea will budge until US vote
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SEOUL South Korea&#39;s deputy foreign minister said on Thursday that progress in resolving the North Korean nuclear crisis is unlikely until after the US presidential election in November.
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North Korea is reportedly not ready to resume talks over its nuclear ambitions, following President Bush's re-election.
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South Korea is sceptical about reaching a substantive agreement at the next round of six-party talks aimed at dismantling North Korea&#39;s nuclear programmes, Seoul&#39;s top negotiator to the talks said today.
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South Koreans went to the polls on  Wednesday expected to choose as president a former CEO vowing  to knock the economy into shape and stand up to the North, but  whose authority could be weakened by a fraud investigation.
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The United States and South Korea failed to hammer out a deal over a timetable for the planned reduction of US troops here, with Seoul asking for the cut to be delayed, officials said.
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The two Koreas tried to mend relations at cabinet-level talks on Tuesday, but the North's refusal to act on a nuclear disarmament deal could lead Seoul to delay rice aid promised to its impoverished neighbor.
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North Korea&#39;s reluctance to resume talks to end its nuclear weapons programs will delay a multilateral security guarantee and aid for the Stalinist state, US Secretary of State Colin Powell told AFP in an interview Wednesday.
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SEOUL -- Denying it has any nuclear weapons ambitions, South Korea insisted yesterday that a one-time uranium enrichment test by its scientists will not derail US-led efforts to dismantle rival North Korea's nuclear programs.
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South Korea's president warns influential US opinion formers not to take an aggressive stance on North Korea.
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South Korea and the United States agreed to push for an early resumption of negotiations to end the North Korean nuclear crisis as soon as the US presidential election comes to a close, top diplomats of the two nations said Tuesday.
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The United States will have to cut its military capabilities in South Korea if Seoul is not willing to bear more of the cost of keeping U.S. troops on the Korean peninsula, a senior Pentagon official said on Monday.
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North Korea remains committed to six-party talks over its nuclear weapons programs but the US presidential elections are influencing its decisions, a British minister has stated after returning from Pyongyang.
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South Korea said Friday it would withhold food and fertilizer shipments to impoverished North Korea until the missile crisis is resolved, even as it pledged to hold high-level talks with the communist regime next week.
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South Korea voiced grave concern on Wednesday over North Korea's plans to test a nuclear device and China urged restraint after the United States said the move would be "an unacceptable threat" to world peace.
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SEOUL - North Korea set three conditions on Friday to be met before it would consider returning to six-party talks on its nuclear programmes.
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North Korea is waiting out the American presidential election in order to bargain with the winner over its nuclear weapons program, according to analysts here and a British diplomat who left Pyongyang today.
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SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea is likely to return to talks on its nuclear weapons development now that the US election is over, South Korea&#39;s foreign minister said today.