NKorean leader still undecided on giving up nukes: analyst
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has still not decided whether to give up his nuclear weapons despite a disarmament pledge under an international deal, a senior analyst said Wednesday.
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North Korea is still committed to an international disarmament-for-aid deal, a U.S. nuclear envoy said on Wednesday, urging patience even though the reclusive state missed a deadline to list its nuclear arms program.
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North Korea is willing to take initial steps toward ending its nuclear arms program, South Korean officials said after six-party talks opened on Thursday, hinting at rare progress in talks which have ended in stalemate for years.
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UN nuclear chief Mohamed ElBaradei says North Korea is still "fully committed" to giving up its nuclear programme.
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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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North Korea has apparently decided  against holding six-party talks on dismantling its suspected  nuclear arms programs until after the Nov. 2 U.S. presidential  election, a senior U.S. official said on Tuesday.
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North Korea has said it may be willing to give up its nuclear weapons, as fresh six-nation talks began amid warnings that four years of tough diplomacy on Pyongyang was now at a crossroads.
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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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South Korea says it has seen no sign of the North shutting its nuclear facility, a key part of last month's landmark deal.
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North Korea armed with nuclear weapons is still no match for the South, and Pyongyang knows better than to attack its neighbor because it cannot win, South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun was quoted as saying on Thursday.
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China and the United States are confident North Korea remains committed to a disarmament agreement but the issue of North Korean funds languishing in a Macau bank needs to be resolved, a U.S. envoy said on Wednesday.
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North Korea said Monday that it will not give up nuclear development in light of unauthorized nuclear experiments by South Korea, where U.N. inspectors nuclear inspectors were conducting an investigation.
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North Korea has not provided a full account of its nuclear program despite Pyongyang's statement asserting it already made a declaration required under a disarmament deal, U.S. officials said on Friday.
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The banking dispute holding up a North Korean nuclear weapons deal looked on Friday to be almost resolved but few expected it to prompt the hermit state to actually start dismantling its atomic armory any time soon.
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South Korea's top policymaker on North  Korea said Monday North Korea's claim to have nuclear weapons  was unproven and Seoul's controversial engagement policy with  the North would remain, at least for now.
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North Korea appears increasingly willing to bargain over the terms of ending its nuclear programs, prompting cautious optimism that some sort of agreement may be reached when the six-nation disarmament talks reconvene next week in Beijing, U.S. and Asian officials close to the talks said.
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Astana - Hanoi, October 11 KAZINFORM -- President Roh Moo-hyun said Monday he did not expect North Korea to go to extremes over the issue of its nuclear weapons development program.