
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- The United States Tuesday rejected North Korea's conditions for freezing its nuclear projects and urged it to return to negotiations without preconditions.
Earlier Tuesday, North Korean offered to freeze its nuclear facilities if the United States offered it free energy and removed it from Washington's list of countries that sponsor terrorism.
"I think the important issue at this stage is whether North Korea is going to return to talks, return to talks without preconditions," the State Department said in response.
He urged Pyongyang to "sit down" and work on the denuclearization process "with a coordinated series of steps that would lead to the verifiable elimination of their nuclear program," spokesman Richard Boucher told a briefing at the State Department.
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