Downer begins North Korea mission
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Foreign Minister Alexander Downer has begun his peace mission to North Korea in a bid to convince the Stalinist regime to abandon its nuclear weapons programs.
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FOREIGN Minister Alexander Downer will today begin talks with North Korean officials to try to convince the communist state to drop its nuclear weapons program.
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With the successful launch, the country can monitor activities worldwide and better observe neighboring North Korea's nuclear program. By the Associated Press.
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Christopher Hill, the chief US negotiator on North Korea, on Monday started a tour to get six-nation disarmament talks back on track after a key deadline slipped.
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U.N. inspectors today began monitoring North Koreaâs promise to scale back its nuclear weapons program.
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North Korea's second-most senior leader  toured a shiny new science park in Beijing Monday, a first stop  on visit aimed at finding ways to help the North's moribund  economy as much as jump-starting stalled nuclear talks.
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North Korea was poised to take its first step in nearly five years toward scaling back its nuclear weapons program with U.N. inspectors en route to the North Friday to monitor the shutdown of its sole operating atomic reactor.
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An increasingly isolated North Korea said  on Tuesday it would conduct its first-ever nuclear test,  blaming a U.S. "threat of nuclear war and sanctions" for  forcing its hand.
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The U.N.'s chief nuclear inspector played down expectations Monday that his trip to North Korea heralded the communist country's rapid disarmament, saying a buildup of trust and confidence were needed first.
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Hopes rose Friday that North Korea will start its promised nuclear shutdown as UN atomic inspectors prepared to leave for Pyongyang, but the North&#39;s military said US hostility could still scupper the disarmament deal.
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North Korea issued a New Year's message on Saturday telling its impoverished people that U.S. actions on the Korea peninsula could lead to war.
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THE international effort to end the North Korean nuclear crisis appears at risk of unravelling, despite Foreign Minister Alexander Downer&#39;s high-profile mission to the secretive Stalinist state.
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Washington&#39;s top nuclear negotiator arrived in Seoul yesterday from China to brainstorm ways to jump-start the stalled six-nation disarmament talks on the North Korean nuclear standoff.
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BEIJING  - A North Korean delegation headed by the Stalinist state&#39;s number two leader arrived in China amid faltering attempts to resolve the standoff over the North&#39;s nuclear weapons program.
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The North Korean claim, which was synchronized with the arrival of a shipment of fuel oil from South Korea, marked the first step toward reversing a confrontation with the U.S.
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Ships from  Japan, the United States, Australia and France on Tuesday began  Asia's first naval exercise to clamp down on weapons of mass  destruction, a drill that communist North Korea has called  hostile and provocative.
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Reports out of Japan claim that there are activities in North Korea implying that the country may be preparing to launch one of its ballistic missiles.