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North Korea Nuclear Program News

ANALYSIS: More `near-nuclear' states may loom

AP - Sunday, June 29

It may have rattled windows and raised dust, but the blast that toppled a towering symbol of North Korea's atom-bomb project was a mere blip on a world map where more and more states may "go nuclear" _ or nearly so _ in the years to come. More »

Rice urges NKorea to give up all nuclear weapons despite 'attachment'
AFP - Sunday, June 29
The United States pressed North Korea Saturday to follow up on a breakthrough by abandoning its full atomic weapons programme -- one where Washington sees signs of "emotional attachment" from Pyongyang. More »
North Korea saddened by loss of reactor tower
AP - Sunday, June 29
There hasn't yet been any official North Korean reaction to the destruction of the most visible symbol of its nuclear program, but a U.S. diplomat who witnessed it said Saturday that the big blast saddened government officials there. More »
Rice in Seoul for talks on NKorea, US beef
AFP - Saturday, June 28
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pressed North Korea on Saturday to give up all its atomic weaponry after the communist state delivered a nuclear declaration and demolished part of its reactor. More »
Analysis: Complex issues remain on NKorea nukes
AP - Saturday, June 28
It took years of talks, coddling and concessions to prod North Korea to step back from its decades-long effort to make atomic weapons, leading to Friday's dramatic destruction of its nuclear reactor cooling tower. More »
Chronology of North Korean nuclear activities
AP - Saturday, June 28
A timeline of nuclear weapons development in North Korea: More »
Bush moves to take N.Korea off terrorism blacklist
AP - Friday, June 27
After months of stalling, North Korea offered a glimpse of its secretive nuclear program Thursday and was promptly rewarded by President Bush with an easing of trade sanctions and a move to take the communist state off the U.S. terrorism blacklist. More »
G8 pledges billions for Afghan-Pakistan region
AFP - Friday, June 27
The Group of Eight powers pledged four billion dollars Thursday to develop the restive Afghan-Pakistan border as North Korea's nuclear disarmament dominated a meeting here of foreign ministers. More »
Long road ahead to verify North Korean declaration
AP - Friday, June 27
North Korea on Thursday submitted a long-delayed accounting of its nuclear activities, triggering an announcement from the Bush administration that it will ease some sanctions on the Stalinist nation. More »