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 SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea's chief envoy stormed out of economic talks with South Korea on Thursday after the South urged its neighbor to honor its nuclear disarmament pledge.
South Korea had wanted to use this week's meetings in Pyongyang to press the communist country to implement a Feb. 13 agreement to start dismantling its atomic weapons programs, possibly using rice aid as leverage.
The North failed to meet a Saturday deadline under the pact to shut down its sole operating nuclear reactor, saying it wanted to make sure a separate financial dispute was resolved first.
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