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The Foreign Ministry says Pyongyang is responding to U.S. delays in removing it from a list of 'terror-sponsoring' states.
Strife between the Koreas has increased since a tourist from the South was shot to death at a North resort. The ill will has been apparent at the Olympic Games.
The U.S. envoy to the talks tells senators that Pyongyang's treatment of its citizens will now be a formal part of discussions.
Pyongyang may stall proceedings and seek a better deal with the next U.S. president.
A timeline of nuclear weapons development in North Korea:
SPECIAL ISSUE / NORTH KOREA
The most beautiful mountain range on the peninsula happens to be in the north. Foreigners can gain access to Mt. Kumgang with a tour.
Pyongyang gives few specifics, but it's another step in the long process of getting the regime to end its nuclear program. Details should come by September, a U.S. official says.
For three years, the Bush administration has waged a campaign to choke off North Korea's access to the world's financial system, where U.S. officials say the nation launders money from criminal enterprises to fuel its trade in missile technology and its efforts to build a nuclear arsenal.
If regime keeps pursuing nuclear arms, financial scrutiny will toughen, U.S. negotiator warns.
China's Macao, its casinos looking for U.S. funds, has dropped a pariah bank client.
Location: Eastern Asia, northern half of the Korean peninsula bordering the Korea Bay and the Sea of Japan, between China and Russia
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