Kyoto, Japan  - Japan is stuck between a rock and a hard place as North Korea's denuclearization progress forces the country to tread a softer line resolving Pyongyang's abductions of Japanese nati

Washington - Just minutes after North Korea submitted its declaration on its nuclear programmes Thursday, the White House greeted the move as an "important step" and said North Korea would begin d

Tokyo  - Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura agreed at a meeting with top nuclear negotiators from South Korea and the United States that three nations should cooperate in urging North Korea

Washington  - North Korea will soon provide an accounting of all of its nuclear work as part of a six-nation disarmament agreement with the secretive country, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice

Beijing - North Korea's top leader Kim Jong Il on Wednesday told China that six-nation negotiations on dismantling Pyongyang's nuclear programme had "reached a lot of important agreements," Chinese