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North Korea announced Monday that the United States agreed to lift economic sanctions and remove it from a list of countries accused of sponsoring terrorism, a move that would satisfy one of the North Korean government’s principal conditions for giving up nuclear weapons.
But a State Department spokeswoman in Washington said she did not have confirmation of the announcement, and Christopher Hill, the chief U.S. envoy, made it clear Sunday that the North Koreans have work to do before the U.S. would take the country off the list.
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Items compiled from Tribune news services
