North Korea derailed world’s nuclear disarmament efforts: Ban

October 5th, 2009 Report: North Korea considers multilateral talksBEIJING — North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, meeting Monday with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, has expressed the North's willingness to hold multilateral dialogue, including six-party talks on nuclear disarmament, if its relations with the United States improve, China's Xinhua news agency reported. In April, North Korea declared its withdrawal from the six-party talks and in May, it conducted a second nuclear test.

September 12th, 2009 SKorea not opposed to US-NKorea direct talksSEOUL, South Korea — South Korea would not oppose the United States holding direct talks with North Korea to persuade the communist regime to rejoin stalled international nuclear disarmament negotiations, the Foreign Ministry said Saturday. U.S. State Department spokesman P.J.

July 27th, 2009 SEOUL - North Korea left the door open for possible dialogue about its nuclear programme in a statement Monday, despite its withdrawal from six-party talks aimed at ending its efforts to become a nuclear power. "There is a specific and reserved form of dialogue that can address the current situation," said a statement from the North Korean Foreign Ministry published in the state media.

July 23rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has warned Iran and North Korea over developing nuclear arms. Speaking in Thailand, Clinton said that if Iran developed nuclear weapons, the US would extend a "defence umbrella" over Arab allies that would make it "unlikely that Iran will be any stronger or safer," Clinton said.

July 18th, 2009 US envoy urges new meetings with NKorea on nukesSEOUL, South Korea — A top envoy said the U.S. remains ready for talks with North Korea, while Washington warned of aggressive sanctions against the North unless it returns to stalled multinational talks on ending its nuclear programs.

July 15th, 2009 North Korea: No disarmament talksSHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt — North Korea is not ready to resume disarmament negotiations over its nuclear program because the U.S. and its allies do not respect the nation's sovereignty, said the country's No.

July 13th, 2009 STOCKHOLM - North Korea must give up its controversial nuclear programme, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak said Monday after talks with Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt. Lee said he supported sanctions adopted by the UN Security Council after North Korea on May 25 conducted an underground test of a nuclear device, which raised tensions in the region.

July 2nd, 2009 Obama keeps door open for NKorean nuclear talksWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says the United States is trying to "keep a door open" for North Korea to return to international nuclear disarmament talks, even as Washington pursues sanctions against the North. Obama told The Associated Press on Thursday that there could be more sanctions in store for the North for its May nuclear test.

May 12th, 2009 Obama envoy: No sense of crisis on NKoreaTOKYO — President Barack Obama's top envoy for North Korea said Tuesday there is no sense of crisis in disarmament talks with the communist regime although it has quit negotiations and is threatening to expand its nuclear arsenal. "Everyone is feeling relatively relaxed about where we are at this point in the process," Stephen Bosworth told reporters in Tokyo.

May 6th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A US delegation will travel to East Asia this week for talks with Chinese, Japanese and South Korean officials to explore ways to resume the six-nation negotiations on North Korea's nuclear activities. Stephen Bosworth, the special US envoy for North Korea, and other US officials are due to arrive in Beijing Thursday before heading to Seoul, Tokyo and Moscow later in the week, the US State Department said Tuesday.

April 25th, 2009 Clinton hopes to resume nuclear talks with NKoreaBAGHDAD — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says Washington hopes to resume talks with North Korea over its nuclear ambitions.

April 25th, 2009 A look at North Korea's nuclear programA look at North Korea's nuclear program: REACTORS: North Korea's only functioning reactor was a 5-megawatt facility at its main nuclear complex in Yongbyon, 60 miles (100 kilometers) north of the capital, Pyongyang. The reactor was shut down in July 2007 as part of a disarmament-for-aid deal negotiated with five other nations.

April 20th, 2009 UN says NKorea could restart nuclear facilityBEIJING — The head of the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog says North Korea could restart its nuclear facility within months, but that he hopes negotiations on halting Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions can be revived. International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed El-Baradei said Monday "it could be a question of months" when asked how soon North Korea could restart its nuclear facility.

April 15th, 2009 VIENNA - North Korea informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Tuesday that it would stop all cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog immediately, IAEA spokesman Marc Vidricaire said. IAEA inspectors are present in North Korea to monitor that the country's nuclear installations remain dismantled and turned off.

January 16th, 2009 PYONGYANG - North Korea will not give up its nuclear weapons programme under US threat, a foreign ministry spokesman said here Saturday. 'If there is something to be desired by us (North Korea), it is not normalisation of relations with the US, but to boost nuclear deterrent in every possible way,' the official KCNA news agency quoted the spokesman as saying.