by P. Parameswaran 24 minutes ago WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States will mantain nuclear sanctions on North Korea even if it removes the hardline nation from a US list of state sponsors of terrorism, the State Department said. It dismissed concerns that such a step, widely expected after North Korea's decision to disband its nuclear arsenal under a multilateral deal, would lead to construction of new nuclear reactors in that country. "Such nuclear cooperation is not the goal or intent of the six-party process," said Jeffrey Bergner, the assistant secretary of state for...
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