N. Korea issues threat on denuclearization
Published: March 28, 2008 at 6:51 AM
PYONGYANG, North Korea, March 28 (UPI) -- North Korea said Friday the United States' demands at the six-party talks "would have a serious impact" on the decommissioning of its nuclear facilities.
Referring to the U.S. demand for disclosure of its uranium enrichment program, North Korea's official news agency quoted a Foreign Ministry official as saying, "If the United States keeps insisting what does not exist and delays the settlement of the nuclear issue, it would have a serious impact on the disablement of nuclear facilities," Yonhap reported.
Talks among the United States, Russia, China, Japan and the two Koreas, on North Korea's denuclearization are stalled over U.S. rejection of the North's earlier disclosure, saying it didn't address its uranium-based weapons program or its alleged providing of nuclear technology to Syria.
Repeating earlier denials, the North Korean spokesman said, "We have never engaged in uranium enrichment activities or nuclear cooperation with other countries and (never) even dreamed of it. Such activities will never happen in the future, too."
North Korea has disabled its main nuclear facility under the six-party talks.
"We can never be a scapegoat for justifying a wrong assertion by the Bush administration," its spokesman said.
In return for total nuclear disarmament, other members in the six-party talks are to provide North Korea with substantial economic and other aid.
Referring to the U.S. demand for disclosure of its uranium enrichment program, North Korea's official news agency quoted a Foreign Ministry official as saying, "If the United States keeps insisting what does not exist and delays the settlement of the nuclear issue, it would have a serious impact on the disablement of nuclear facilities," Yonhap reported.
Talks among the United States, Russia, China, Japan and the two Koreas, on North Korea's denuclearization are stalled over U.S. rejection of the North's earlier disclosure, saying it didn't address its uranium-based weapons program or its alleged providing of nuclear technology to Syria.
Repeating earlier denials, the North Korean spokesman said, "We have never engaged in uranium enrichment activities or nuclear cooperation with other countries and (never) even dreamed of it. Such activities will never happen in the future, too."
North Korea has disabled its main nuclear facility under the six-party talks.
"We can never be a scapegoat for justifying a wrong assertion by the Bush administration," its spokesman said.
In return for total nuclear disarmament, other members in the six-party talks are to provide North Korea with substantial economic and other aid.
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