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North Korea: US and allies pile on the pressure over Pyongyang’s nukes

by Our Foreign Desk

The United States, South Korea and Japan agreed in Seoul yesterday to press North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons unilaterally.

The one-day meeting of half of the six-nation negotiating group on Pyongyang’s nuclear energy and weapons programme — minus China, Russia and North Korea itself — urged the North to engage in serious negotiations on the issue.

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