N. Korea hits out at United States

PYONGYANG, North Korea, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- North Korea, in the midst of resuming nuclear production, says the United States is using the six-nation talks as a trick to initiate another war against it.

The charge was made Wednesday in a commentary in Rodong Sinmun, the communist country's official newspaper, China's Xinhua news agency reported.

Earlier, commenting on Pyongyang's latest nuclear plans, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had warned such actions would only further isolate the country.

Besides North Korea and the United States, others involved in the North's nuclear disarmament in exchange for extensive economic aid are Russia, China, Japan and South Korea.

Rodong Sinmun was quoted as alleging the United States had worked out a plan to rapidly dispatch huge reinforcements to the Korean Peninsula in the "event of contingency."

The commentary went on to say, "This clearly shows once again that the United States' call for 'peaceful settlement of the nuclear issue' or 'talks' is a trick aimed at deceiving public opinion at home and abroad, and that the United States is persistently seeking a pre-emptive attack on the DPRK (North Korea)."

North Korea announced last month it will restart its nuclear reactor at Yongbyon near Pyongyang in response to the U.S. refusal to remove it from a blacklist of terrorism sponsors.