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North Korea's agreement to return to the Six-Party format followed trilateral discussions last Tuesday in Beijing between the U.S., China and North Korea. Earlier, China extracted a public declaration from Pyongyang that it would not conduct further nuclear tests.
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The agreement that ended North Korea's nuclear weapons program, the Agreed Framework, is so far behind schedule that Pyongyang this spring could threaten to restart its nuclear arms program, Mr. Manning said. "You could have a serious escalation of the threat," he said.
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On Monday, Kim Jong Il of North Korea and South Korean President Roh Mu-hyun will hold a three-day meeting in Pyongyang. It will be only the second North-South summit - Kim Jong Il met Roh's predecessor, Kim Dae-jung, in 2000.
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North and South Korea have formally opened high-level talks in Seoul, but delegates from the North are remaining silent so far about Pyongyang's commitment to dismantle its nuclear programs. VOA's Kurt Achin reports from the South Korean capital.
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BEIJING — China responded to North Korea's warning that it will test a nuclear bomb with some of the sharpest rhetoric Beijing has used against its longtime communist ally. But would China punish Pyongyang if it goes nuclear?
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(IPS) notes the observation of Alan Romberg, a Korea specialist at the Henry L. Stimson Centre, that the US being against negotiations, helped push North Korea into performing this test11. “Given the administration’s past rejection of Chinese and South Korean appeals to engage Pyongyang,” Romberg was quoted as saying, “the likelihood is that there won’t be progress (in negotiations) between now and the end of the Bush administration … the North’s decision to test was importantly based on that calculation.”
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