SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea appeared increasingly unlikely to meet a weekend deadline to shut down its nuclear reactor, staying silent Thursday about whether it was satisfied with a U.S. solution to a financial dispute that has stalled the disarmament process. The U.S., South Korea and China said the North has not withdrawn some $25 million that was unfrozen this week in a bank in the Chinese territory of Macau. Washington had blacklisted the Banco Delta Asia in September 2005 for allegedly ... Read More

N.Korea funds freed as nuclear deadline nears By Jonathan Thatcher 1 hour, 18 minutes ago SEOUL (Reuters) - The United States said on Tuesday that Macau authorities have unblocked funds in frozen North Korean accounts and urged Pyongyang to work toward shutting down a nuclear reactor by a weekend deadline. The reclusive state has insisted it will only close the reactor, which supplies it with weapons-grade plutonium, once $25 million dollars in funds linked to North Korean interests and frozen since 2005 in ... Read More