Korea
International efforts to scrap North Korea’s nuclear programs are at a crossroads due mainly to disagreements over a suspected secret weapons project, South Korea’s foreign minister said Thursday.
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North Korea said it may slow down work to disable its nuclear plants because of what it called a delay in promised energy aid, Japanese media reported Thursday.
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Japan does not expect North Korea to meet a year-end deadline to declare its nuclear programmes but wants a full accounting once it does, an official said Wednesday.
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Japan
Kansai Electric Power Co, Japan’s second-biggest utility, cut on Wednesday its 2007/08 group operating outlook by 20 percent, hit by the prolonged shutdown of a nuclear power unit and higher fuel prices.
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