US nuclear deals with North Korea, India in limbo

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WASHINGTON (AFP) — US deals to end North Korea's nuclear weapons drive and to bring India into the loop of global atomic commerce are in a limbo amid doubts they can be wrapped up before President George W. Bush leaves office in a year.

The deal with North Korea under a six-nation agreement had been progressing well last year until Pyongyang failed to meet a December 31 deadline to fully declare its nuclear program and disable its key plutonium reactor.

Washington says it has evidence that Pyongyang has imported material for a suspected uranium enrichment program aside from its plutonium activities.

The elusive North Koreans, on the other hand, have vowed to slow down their nuclear disablement activities.

They claim the United States and the other...