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U.S. seeks the relocation of N. Korean nuclear engineers By YOSHIHIRO MAKINO/ Correspondent May 10, 2018 at 16:35 JST SEOUL--In preliminary negotiations before their upcoming summit, the United States is demanding that North Korea relocate its nuclear engineers to other countries and discard data from its nuclear development program. The demands were made in preliminary discussions for the U.S.-North Korea summit scheduled to be held by early June, sources related to North Korea said on May 9. However, North Korea is resisting the relocation of up to several thousand nuclear engineers and is taking a vague stance on the abandonment...

Pompeo alters wording on nukes New top envoy calls for a ‘permanent’ end to Pyongyang’s WMD Mike Pompeo, the new U.S. secretary of state, declared on Wednesday that Washington is committed to the “permanent, verifiable, irreversible dismantling” of North Korea’s weapons of mass destruction program (WMD), introducing terminology that could indicate a more hard-line approach to denuclearization. “Right now, we have an unprecedented opportunity to change the course of history on the Korean Peninsula,” said Pompeo during his swearing-in ceremony at the State Department in Washington ahead of a high-stakes leaders’ summit between North Korea and the United States in...