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TOKYO, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- North Korea Saturday demanded Japan be excluded from the pending six-country talks about North Korea's nuclear program, it was reported.
A North Korean government spokesman called Japan's vocal opposition to North Korea's drive toward nuclear power "a spate of balderdashes," the Kyodo News service reported.
The spokesman said Japan has already expressed "its wicked intention" to keep North Korea nuclear free so it need not send a representative to the talks, North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency reported.
Calling Japan "a state of the U.S.," the spokesman also said the United States could just tell Japan the outcome of the talks.
"There is no need for Japan to participate in them ... because it is no more than a state of the U.S. and it is enough for Tokyo just to be informed of the results of the talks by Washington," Kyodo quoted the KCNA as reporting.
North Korea -- which reportedly conducted a nuclear test Oct. 9 -- agreed after nearly a year off to resume talks with United States, Russia, China, Japan, North Korea and South Korea.
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