North Korea nuclear talks snag on aid for Pyongyang
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Talks to end North Korea's nuclear arms program fell short of an accord on Saturday as a dispute over how to compensate Pyongyang for taking disarmament steps clouded prospects for agreement on an initial plan.
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Talks aimed at dismantling North Korea's nuclear weapons program failed to reach agreement on Sunday, stalled on Pyongyang's demands for energy compensation and leaving one more day for negotiators to scramble for a deal.
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The planned resumption next week of  six-country talks on North Korea's nuclear programs has fanned  speculation about a U.S.-North Korean trade-off that is making  both supporters and skeptics of a potential deal uneasy.
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Hopes for a September round of of six-party talks on the North Korean nuclear crisis were evaporating on Tuesday as Pyongyang hinted it was
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U.S. and North Korean officials  started talks on Monday aimed at eventually normalizing  diplomatic ties as part of an agreement under which Pyongyang  has pledged to scrap its nuclear arms programs in exchange for  aid.
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North Korea was reluctant to accept a United States plan to give up its nuclear program but would probably attend the next round of talks on the impasse, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said after a brief visit to Pyongyang.
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BEIJING, Feb. 10 -- Despite three days of hard bargaining, North Korean nuclear disarmament talks remained stuck Saturday over the energy aid North Korea would receive in return for closing its main nuclear reactor, diplomats said.
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North Korean and US officials met this week to discuss the nuclear standoff on the Korean Peninsula. It appears they came no closer to resuming multilateral talks on ending Pyongyang&#39;s nuclear weapons programs.
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Negotiators on North Korea's nuclear programs engaged in intense diplomacy Saturday to resolve remaining hurdles to a deal that would see the communist state take its first real steps to disarm.
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Shortage may spur Pyongyang back to six-party nuclear talks, analysts say.
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North Korea ruled out Monday attending proposed six-way working-level talks on its nuclear arms programs and questioned the entire negotiating process, blaming hostile U.S. policy for Pyongyang's tougher stance.
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Impoverished North Korea's first steps to  take apart its nuclear arms program may reap the reward of food  aid from the South when the two hold their first high-level  meeting in months on Tuesday.
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A dispute over whether North Korea has given the U.S. details of its nuclear programs has become the latest hurdle in efforts to rid the North of its atomic arsenal.
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BEIJING -- Talks aimed at shutting down North Korea's nuclear weapons program ended yesterday with no concrete timeline and a host of difficult questions obscuring the road ahead.
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Washington urged North Korea on Monday to stop haggling and seal a deal on ending its nuclear arms ambitions after six-party talks snagged on Pyongyang's demand for energy aid worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
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While Pyongyang will likely delay six-nation talks on its nuclear programs, Japan&#39;s Foreign Ministry is preparing discussions with North Korea later this month in Beijing to finally get answers on 10 missing Japanese.
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A US envoy said this week's talks on North Korea's nuclear weapons could discuss economic incentives for Pyongyang, but Japan ruled out funding a deal without progress in a dispute over kidnapped Japanese.