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N Korea shuns atomic talks

REUTERS, Seoul
North Korea has ruled out attending proposed six-way working-level talks on its nuclear arms programmes and has questioned the entire negotiating process, blaming hostile U.S. policy for Pyongyang's tougher stance.
But a Chinese analyst and South Korean officials saw a large measure of pre-talks bluster in the comments from a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman and predicted the talks would go ahead before the end of September. Pyongyang has in the past raised the rhetorical volume before attending talks or making a concession.
The working-level talks had been expected last week but failed to materialise, leading diplomats to suggest North Korea could be seeking to drag out the process as the U.S. presidential election in November approaches.
"The U.S. has destroyed itself the foundation for the talks, making it impossible for the DPRK to go to the forthcoming meeting of the working group," the spokesman said in comments published by the official KCNA news agency on Monday.
DPRK is short for the North's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
"It is clear that there would be nothing to expect even if the DPRK sits at the negotiating table with the U.S. under the present situation," the spokesman said.
"Now that the process of the six-party talks is retracting from the desired direction due to the U.S. attitude and nothing can be expected from the next round of the talks, it is clear such talks for the form's sake would be helpful to no one."
He did not explicitly rule out attending the full talks.
"IT'S MERE POSTURING"
The spokesman pointed to the airlift last month of more than 460 North Korean refugees to the South from Southeast Asia, recent human rights legislation in the United States and what he described as U.S. comments that a military option to solve the crisis was not ruled out. "The present development stuns and disappoints the DPRK," he said in a detailed statement that broke a long silence from the North on the talks.
A senior South Korean official, who asked not to be identified, said he still expected a fourth round of the main talks to be held before the end of September as planned and that the working-group talks could immediately precede them.
"This is the North Koreans putting on pressure," said the official. "I wouldn't want to say that this thing is about really quitting the six-party process or the working-group talks."
Another South Korean official said the North would be speaking to China "very soon" and so it would be premature to assume the working-level talks were irretrievable.
In Tokyo, Japanese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hatsuhisa Takashima told Reuters the six-party talks and working-group talks -- which include Russia, Japan, China, the two Koreas and the United States -- were extremely important.
"Proposals had been made in the last round of six-party talks and we had expected answers to them at the next round or at the working group talks. So if North Korea is not taking part in the working group talks, it is truly regrettable and we urge them to reconsider," he said.
Shi Yinhong, a professor of international relations at the People's University in Beijing, said the United States had hardened its position after the third round in Beijing in June.
"North Korea is very upset about this," Shi said. "North Korea appears unwilling to make a deal with George W. Bush and prefers to wait until after the U.S. presidential elections."
But Shi said it was unlikely Pyongyang would pull out of talks altogether because too much is at stake.
"It's mere posturing by North Korea," Shi said.