North Korea Poses `Serious Challenge,&#39; IAEA&#39;s ElBaradei Says
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North Korea poses a ``serious challenge&#39;&#39; to United Nations efforts to control the spread of nuclear weapons, said Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
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As North Korea, South Korea, and Iran raise risks of an arms race, the global challenge to nonproliferation grows.
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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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North Korea is seriously considering its  role in talks on its nuclear plans because of what it sees as a  concerted campaign to topple the North's system, the North  Korean Foreign Ministry said on Monday.
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VIENNA, Austria There&#39;s a new appeal for North Korea to scrap its nuclear weapons ambitions. It&#39;s coming from a 137-nation meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Austria.
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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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UNITED NATIONS -- The UN Security Council issued a statement yesterday expressing ``deep concern" about North Korea's threat to conduct its first test of a nuclear explosive, saying it would ``jeopardize peace, stability, and security in the region and beyond."
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U.N. atomic watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei was in Tehran on Friday for talks on outstanding questions about Iran's nuclear ambitions, a program the West fears will ultimately yield warheads.
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TOKYO -- A pledge by North Korea yesterday to conduct a nuclear test to bolster its defenses against the United States dramatically raised tensions in the region and marked the communist government's first unambiguous public threat to demonstrate itself as a nuclear power.
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Urgent investment is needed in North Korea to deal with serious environmental problems that have depleted the countryâs forests, contaminated water supplies and polluted the air, the United Nationsâ top environmental official has said.
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IRAN is defying the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) while engaging in an &quot;unrelenting push toward nuclear weapons capability&quot;, the US said today.
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Japan pressed on with efforts on Thursday to secure a U.N. condemnation of North Korea's nuclear test threat after Washington, in its starkest warning so far, said it would not live with a nuclear-armed Pyongyang.
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How to verify that North Korea is shutting down its main nuclear reactor will dominate the agenda for a rare U.N. visit this week to the communist nation, a senior nuclear monitor said Monday.
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The International Atomic Energy Agency will resume inspections in North Korea following Pyongyang's announcement that it will curb its nuclear activities, its chief Mohamed ElBaradei, pictured in 2006, ...Comment
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North Korea and Iran have a long way to go to get off the Bush administration's list of nuclear threats, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told The Associated Press on Wednesday
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Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Mohamed ElBaradei arrived in Seoul on Sunday for a four-day visite here.
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ELEANOR HALL: A huge explosion in North Korea near the border with China has sparked fears around the world about the communist regime&#39;s nuclear capacity.