Topic: North Korea

Exclusive: N.Korea military, uncle to share power with Kim heir

BEIJING (Reuters) - North Korea will shift to collective rule from a strongman dictatorship after last week's death of Kim Jong-il, although his untested young son will be at the head of the ruling coterie, a source with close ties to Pyongyang ...

IAEA wants to redeploy nuclear inspectors in North Korea: report

TOKYO (Reuters) - The International Atomic Energy Agency must redeploy its inspectors in North Korea to help with the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, Yukiya Amano, director general of the U.N. nuclear agency was quoted as saying by Kyodo news agency.The death ...

Kim Jong-il: reclusive leader in a hermit

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, revered at home by a propaganda machine that turned him into a demi-god and vilified in the West as a temperamental tyrant with a nuclear arsenal, has died, North Korean state television reported Monday.Kim, ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il dead

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-il died of a heart attack while on a train trip, state media reported Monday, sparking immediate concern over who is in control of the reclusive state and its nuclear program.A tearful television announcer dressed ...
North Korea said Wednesday it is making rapid progress in enriching uranium and building a new reactor -- projects which experts say could give it a second way to make nuclear weapons."The construction of experimental LWR (light-water reactor) and the low-enriched uranium ...

North Korea says work on uranium enrichment moves briskly

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Wednesday it was moving briskly ahead with the construction of an experimental light-water reactor and uranium enrichment, and that it was willing to prove the peaceful nature of its program through the U.N. nuclear agency.North ...

US restates N.Korea nuclear demands

The United States will consider holding further talks with North Korea but Pyongyang must halt its uranium enrichment programme before full disarmament negotiations resume, a senior US official said Tuesday."They have not yet made all of the commitments they need to, including ...

North Korea says new reactor to start soon

North Korea will soon start operating a new home-built nuclear reactor, its official news agency said Thursday in a commentary one year after Pyongyang publicly disclosed the plant."The day is near at hand when a light-water reactor entirely based on domestic resources ...

U.S. upbeat after North Korea talks, but no breakthrough

GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States ended two days of meetings with North Korea on Tuesday sounding upbeat about an eventual return to wider talks on ending Pyongyang's atomic programs but saying there was no immediate breakthrough.Meeting for the second time in ...

U.S. upbeat after North Korea nuclear talks

GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States is optimistic about an eventual return to six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear program, the chief U.S. negotiator said on Tuesday after two days of meetings with North Korean negotiators.Ambassador Stephen Bosworth, U.S. special representative for ...
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