11.   Much has been made of the demise of the Cold War and, with it, the end of a decades-long U.S.-Soviet nuclear standoff.

12.   While both sides had agreed to high-level talks involving Gallucci and Kang to resolve the nuclear standoff, they had disagreed on the place.

13.   While both sides had agreed to high-level talks involving Gallucci and Kang to resolve the nuclear standoff, they had disagreed on the venue.

14.   With cautious approval from Clinton, Carter defused a nuclear standoff in North Korea and headed off a U.S. invasion in Haiti.

15.   Han was originally scheduled to return home Wednesday, ending a series of meetings with UN Security Council members over economic sanctions against the North over the nuclear standoff.

16.   He stopped short of specifying what Japan would do in the event of UN sanctions or US-led independent action in the nuclear standoff.

17.   In Washington, Assistant Secretary of State Robert Gallucci said after a two-hour meeting with Carter on Sunday that he may have helped resolve the nuclear standoff.

18.   At the meeting, Hata said sanctions should be phased to persuade North Korea into changing its mind on the nuclear standoff, according to Jiji.

19.   But Lee said the intitial conference would not broach the Korean nuclear standoff.

20.   China and Russia have urged a gradual approach to solving the nuclear standoff.