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Posted: 3/9/2008 8:57:50 PM EST
A North Korean works at the Taedonggang Beer factory in the North Korean capital Pyongyang May 3, 2004. North Korea has pursued nuclear weapons for decades, but its quest to produce decent beer began in earnest when in 2000 it started talks with Britain's Ushers brewery about acquiring its Trowbridge, Wiltshire plant that had ceased operations. Picture taken May 3, 2004. To match feature KOREA-NORTH/BEER REUTERS/Lee Jae-Won (NORTH KOREA)
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Posted: 1/8/2008 7:35:16 AM EST
U.S. nuclear envoy and Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill (R) leaves as his South Korean counterpart Chun Yung-woo bids farewell after their dinner at a hotel in Seoul January 8, 2008. North Korea's refusal to divulge details of its nuclear weapons programme caused it to miss a deadline in a disarmament-for-aid deal it struck with regional powers, Hill said on Tuesday. REUTERS/Jo Yong-Hak (SOUTH KOREA)
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Posted: 12/20/2007 12:47:43 AM EST
South Korean President-elect Lee Myung-bak (C) of the main opposition Grand National Party (GNP) looks up at the sky during a disbanding ceremony for the GNP election committee at the party headquarters in Seoul December 20, 2007. South Korea's president-elect pledged on Thursday to put the economy first once he takes office and not to be shy about telling prickly North Korea to mend its ways over nuclear weapons and human rights. REUTERS/Jo Yong-Hak (SOUTH KOREA)
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Posted: 12/20/2007 12:09:01 AM EST
South Korean President-elect Lee Myung-bak (R) of the main opposition Grand National Party (GNP) listens to a supporter Kim Sam-rye, 78, during a disbanding ceremony for the GNP election committee at the party headquarters in Seoul December 20, 2007. South Korea's president-elect pledged on Thursday to put the economy first once he takes office and not to be shy about telling prickly North Korea to mend its ways over nuclear weapons and human rights. REUTERS/Jo Yong-Hak (SOUTH KOREA)
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Posted: 11/29/2007 5:55:00 AM EST
Top U.S. nuclear envoy and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill speaks to the media after a meeting with his South Korean counterpart Chun Young-woo at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul November 29, 2007. The chief U.S. envoy to talks on ending North Korea's nuclear weapons programme said on Thursday he expects the secretive state to release a full account of its atomic possessions within days. REUTERS/Han Jae-Ho (SOUTH KOREA)
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Posted: 9/29/2007 10:42:09 PM EST
Chief U.S. negotiator Christopher Hill speaks to the media in Beijing September 30, 2007. No big differences divide negotiators seeking to end North Korea's nuclear weapons ambitions, the U.S. envoy said on Saturday, adding a statement pointing the way forward was a real prospect. REUTERS/Jason Lee (CHINA)
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Posted: 6/24/2007 8:53:03 PM EST
A man stops his mining cart at the exit to the Pandora Mine in La Sal, Utah, June 1, 2007. A rush of prospectors in the Colorado Plateau mineral belt are thumping stakes into public land and registering claims, hoping to get rich on the back of record uranium prices. The boom is reviving the fortunes of a storied mining area in the U.S. Southwest where large uranium ore deposits were first tapped for the voracious Cold War nuclear weapons program in the early 1950s, before suffering a slump. To match feature USA-URANIUM/RUSH REUTERS/Tim Gaynor (UNITED STATES)
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Posted: 6/3/2007 3:21:37 AM EST
South Korean Foreign Minister Song Min-soon (R) and his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi shake hands before their meeting in Seogwipo on Jeju Island, south of Seoul June 3, 2007. The foreign ministers of South Korea, Japan and China meet on Sunday to try to smooth often prickly ties and help resolve the impasse over the nuclear weapons plans of their neighbour, North Korea. REUTERS/Jung Yeon-je/Pool (SOUTH KOREA)
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Posted: 5/6/2007 4:51:32 AM EST
A tourist walks along a stairway at the site of China's first nuclear weapons base in Haiyan county May 6, 2007. China has declassified its first nuclear weapons base and is inviting tourists to visit the site, in a remote part of the northwestern province of Qinghai, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. REUTERS/Simon Zo (CHINA)
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Posted: 5/6/2007 4:22:26 AM EST
A general view of closed down plants at the site of China's first nuclear weapons base in Haiyan county, northwestern China's Qinghai province, May 6, 2007. China has declassified its first nuclear weapons base and is inviting tourists to visit the site, in a remote part of the northwestern province of Qinghai, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. REUTERS/Simon Zo (CHINA)
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Posted: 4/1/2007 12:47:39 PM EST
An Iranian girl stands in front of a banner as her mother attends a protest in front of the British embassy in Tehran April 1, 2007. Iranian protestors hurled stones and big firecrackers at Britain's embassy in Tehran on Sunday in a worsening crisis over 15 detained British naval personnel. The banner reads "Nuclear Technology Yes. Nuclear Weapons No." REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl (IRAN)
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Posted: 3/12/2007 12:05:44 AM EST
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Mohamed ElBaradei talks to the media during his arrival at a hotel in Beijing March 12, 2007. Moving forward with a plan to inspect and close atomic facilities behind North Korea's nuclear weapons ambitions is likely to be painstaking, the chief of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Monday in Beijing. REUTERS/Alfred Cheng Jin (CHINA)
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Posted: 3/6/2007 5:20:01 AM EST
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte speaks during a news conference at the Information Resource Centre of the U.S. embassy's Public Affairs Office in Seoul March 6, 2007. The U.S. expects North Korea to fully account for its programme to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons as a part of the deal it struck to start scrapping its atomic arms, Negroponte said on Tuesday. REUTERS/Jo Yong-Hak (SOUTH KOREA)
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Posted: 2/9/2007 4:23:05 AM EST
North Koreans unload goods from a truck at the bank of the Yalu River near the North Korean town of Sinuiju February 9, 2007. North Korea's delegate to six-party talks on its nuclear weapons programme said on Friday there had been agreement on some issues with the United States. REUTERS/Adam Dean (NORTH KOREA)
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Posted: 2/9/2007 4:22:31 AM EST
North Korean soldiers unload goods from a boat at the bank of the Yalu River near the North Korean town of Sinuiju February 9, 2007. North Korea's delegate to six-party talks on its nuclear weapons programme said on Friday there had been agreement on some issues with the United States. REUTERS/Adam Dean (NORTH KOREA)
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Posted: 2/8/2007 2:58:36 AM EST
A North Korean soldier guards the bank of the Yalu River at the North Korean town of Sinuiju February 8, 2007. Six-party negotiations on winding up Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programme resume on Thursday, with hopes raised for progress on at least the first steps after milestone talks between U.S. and North Korean envoys last month. The Korean characters on the tank read "No Naked Fire". REUTERS/Adam Dean (NORTH KOREA)
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Posted: 2/8/2007 2:46:53 AM EST
A South Korean soldier stands guard at Dorasan station, 700 m (0.4 miles) south of the southern limiting line of the demilitarised zone separating the two Koreas, in Paju, 56 km (35 miles) north of Seoul, February 8, 2007. Six-party negotiations on winding up Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programme resume on Thursday, with hopes raised for progress on at least the first steps after milestone talks between U.S. and North Korean envoys last month. REUTERS/Lee Jae-Won (SOUTH KOREA)
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Posted: 1/17/2007 5:00:34 AM EST
A North Korean student walks past a painting of the North's leader, Kim Jong-il, at a library of the Kimchaek University of Technology in central Pyongyang in this December 19, 2006 file photo. A meeting of North Korean and U.S. envoys in Berlin this week should bring the two sides a step closer to implementing a key agreement aimed at ending the North's nuclear weapons programme, South Korea said on January 17, 2007. REUTERS/Lee Jae-Won/Files (NORTH KOREA)
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Posted: 1/8/2007 4:22:47 PM EST
Pope Benedict poses with foreign diplomats in the Vatican January 8, 2007. Pope Benedict warned on Monday of a possible nuclear weapons crisis and urged North Korea and Iran to reduce tensions through negotiations. BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE REUTERS/Obsservatore Romano (VATICAN)
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Posted: 12/21/2006 8:37:28 PM EST
Chun Yung-woo, South Korea's chief negotiator for the six-party talks, leaves a hotel in Beijing December 22, 2006. Talks aimed at persuading North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program headed into a final day on Friday, with officials holding out little hope of reaching a deal on first steps toward that goal. REUTERS/Jason Lee (CHINA)
