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submitted by agabriel 34 months ago, from reuters.com
North Korea said on Tuesday it was no longer bound by an international nuclear disarmament deal and would re-start its plant that makes arms-grade plutonium after the U.N. chastised it for launching a long-range rocket. More
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submitted by eooties 34 months ago, from washingtonpost.com
President Obama, in Prague to deliver a speech in which he vows to reduce the proliferation of nuclear weapons and material, condemned North Korea's launch of a ballistic missile, calling it a threat to the region and to international peace and security. More
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from hosted.ap.org, 42 months ago
The White House says North Korea has not fulfilled conditions necessary for its removal from the U.S. blacklist of state sponsors of terrorism... More
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by Anne Gearan from hosted.ap.org, 42 months ago
President Bush is rushing the clock and running out of time as he tries to stare down nuclear threats on three fronts. Bush has seen Iran ignore a weekend deadline to say whether it will haggle with the U.S. and others worried that Iran is racing toward the bomb. More
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submitted by blueheat 43 months ago, from cnn.com
The six-nation talks on North Korea's nuclear program reached a "principled consensus" on how to verify the information in Pyongyang's nuclear declaration submitted last month, Chinese officials said in a Xinhua report. The top U.S. negotiator said Saturday's session would focus on preparing... More
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by Anne Gearan from hosted.ap.org, 44 months ago
The Bush administration breathed easier when the prickly and unpredictable North Korean government stuck to its script and handed over long-delayed nuclear paperwork as planned. But if the documentation provided Thursday were a college term paper, the grade would be "incomplete." More
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by Terence Hunt from hosted.ap.org, 44 months ago
Seven years of tough talk by President Bush failed to stop North Korea from enlarging its stockpile of nuclear bombs on his watch and Bush's administration is winding down with deep doubts about whether Pyongyang really intends to abandon its weapons program.... More
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submitted by rodeox 44 months ago, from iht.com
North Korea took a step Thursday toward reintegration into the world community and rapprochement with the United States by submitting for outside review a long-delayed declaration of its nuclear program. The administration of President Bush almost immediately announced that it would remove... More
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submitted by agabriel 44 months ago, from reuters.com
North Korea was expected to hand China a long-delayed account of its shadowy nuclear activities on Thursday, a step that may see it removed from Washington's list of terrorist states. A milestone on the way to ending its nuclear ambitions, the move could also win the reclusive state diplomatic... More
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submitted by eooties 44 months ago, from news.yahoo.com
The White House said North Korea has a Thursday "deadline" to hand in a long-awaited accounting of its nuclear past, but warned the paperwork could be delayed yet again. An indication the North Korean government has decided to meet the deadline came with a report that news organizations... More
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by Foster Klug from hosted.ap.org, 44 months ago
North Korea has not been linked to a terrorist attack in more than two decades, but it is still on the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism. Now, it may be on the verge of its coveted goal of getting removed - for reasons having little to do with terrorism. More
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from feeds.washingtonpost.com, 45 months ago
Early in President Bush's second term, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice convened a series of strategy sessions on how to persuade North Korea to surrender its nuclear weapons programs. One key official, Assistant Secretary of State Christopher R. Hill, remained largely silent, four participants... More
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submitted by ghostdog 46 months ago, from timesonline.co.uk
An airbase inside a mountain is the latest sign that North Korea, whose links to Syria’s nuclear programme came to light last week, is cranking up its military machine More
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submitted by eooties 46 months ago, from news.bbc.co.uk
The United States has accused North Korea of helping Syria build a nuclear reactor that "was not intended for peaceful purposes". The site, said to be like one in North Korea, was bombed by Israel in 2007. Syria must "come clean" about its secret nuclear program, the White House said in a... More
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from nytimes.com, 46 months ago
After seven months of near-total secrecy, the White House is preparing to make public on Thursday video evidence of North Koreans working at a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor just before it was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike last September. More
