North Korea signs pacts with Mongolia
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Secretive North Korea signed deals  with resource-rich Mongolia on Friday, local media said, in the  first visit by a high-ranking North Korean official to Ulan  Bator since 1988.
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North Korea has agreed to a deal to begin to close down its nuclear program in exchange for $300 million in energy and financial aid, a Chinese diplomat said in a statement at the close of six-party talks.
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South Korea on Saturday welcomed an agreement struck with Washington to give Seoul wartime operational control over its forces, hailing it as a boost in their 50-year alliance.
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North Korea said on Friday it had already given an account of its nuclear arms program as required under an international disarmament deal, while separately threatening to boost its "war deterrent".
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North and South Korea agreed Monday to send their first joint cheering squads with a total of 600 members to this summer's Beijing Olympics in a move toward reconciliation
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North Korea said on Friday it had given an account of its nuclear arms program as required in an international disarmament deal, while separately threatening to boost "war deterrent".
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South Korea's Olympic bid organizers said the North's agreement to halt its nuclear program is a breakthrough in unifying the two Koreas and buoys hopes of hosting the 2014 Winter Games.
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North Korea has offered Russia exclusive  rights to its natural uranium deposits in exchange for open  support at the six-way talks on Pyongyang's nuclear weapons, a  Japanese daily said on Sunday.
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Egypt's Orascom Telecom said on Thursday it had won the right to provide wireless services to North Korea, which, as well as being one of the world's most isolated countries, strictly controls information access for the general public.
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Japan and China will cooperate closely to ensure that North Korea follows through on its agreement to dismantle its nuclear weapons programs, Japan's prime minister said Friday.
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Six countries reached a tentative agreement Tuesday on initial steps toward North Korea's nuclear disarmament that could usher in the first concrete progress after more than three years of talks marked by delays, deadlock and the communist country's first nuclear test explosion.
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North Korea is committed to a disarmament pact reached in February but wants sanctions lifted first, the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Wednesday on his return from a trip he said had cleared the air.
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North Korea has invited a delegation of the United Nations nuclear watchdog to visit the country in what could be a first step towards implementing an international agreement intended to curb its nuclear programme.
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North Korea says it will not abandon its weapons programme after the South admitted nuclear activities.
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South Korea's state-run Korea National  Oil Corp. (KNOC) has signed a deal with Kazakhstan's state oil  firm KazMunaiGas to set up an upstream oil project in the  oil-rich Caspian Sea.
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Japanese and North Korean negotiators meet in Mongolia for talks aimed at resolving bilateral disputes.
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Japan and North Korea expressed guarded optimism as they began talks in Mongolia on Wednesday on establishing diplomatic ties, after Washington and Pyongyang appeared to move forward in similar discussions at the weekend.