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Nuke talks dead

Says North Korea, blasts 'hostile' US as Hillary says options running out

AFP, AP, Seoul! Phuket
North Korea yesterday described six-party disarmament talks as dead and urged the United States to drop its "hostile" policy, Seoul’s Yonhap news agency reported from the Thai resort of Phuket.
The agency, quoting a North Korean delegate who gave a briefing in Korean to reporters at the Asean Regional Forum, said he attacked Washington's "deep-rooted hostile policy" and vowed no dialogue until it changes.
Ri Hung-Sik, director-general of the foreign ministry's international organisation bureau, also dismissed as "nonsense" a suggested comprehensive package of incentives in return for the North's denuclearisation. "The so-called package is nonsense. The current crisis is due to the US hostile policy," Ri was quoted as saying.
"The six-party talks are already dead," he said, referring to long-running nuclear disarmament negotiations involving the two Koreas, the United States, China, Russia and Japan.
"The United States must abandon its hostile policy immediately, then talks would be possible."
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meanwhile urged Southeast Asian and other nations at the security forum to enforce the UN sanctions imposed against the North for its nuclear and missile tests.
"The United States will continue to work through every avenue to persuade North Korea to eliminate its nuclear programme and normalise relations with the world," shetold the meeting.
Faced with a fresh refusal by North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons programme, Hillary Clinton said Thursday the communist regime has "no friends left" to shield it from punishing UN penalties.
At the same time, she held out the prospect of restoring US diplomatic ties to North Korea and other incentives actions the Obama administration would be willing to consider only if the North Koreans take irreversible steps to denuclearise.
"North Korea's continued pursuit of its nuclear ambitions is sure to elevate tensions on the Korean peninsula and could provoke an arms race in the region," Hillary told a news conference after conferring with officials from 26 other countries and organisations. She cited near unanimity on fully enforcing the latest UN sanctions against North Korea for its repeated nuclear and missile tests.
Wrapping up a weeklong trip to India and Thailand, Hillary offered a somewhat more optimistic message
about another trouble spot on the US foreign policy agenda: Myanmar, the military-run southeast Asian nation also known as Burma.
Excerpts from her comments were released in advance to the media.
Ri rejected the suggested package, Yonhap reported.
"It is just a replay of the Bush administration’s policy of CVID (complete, verifiable, irreversible dismantlement),” he said.
North Korea quit the six-party talks and vowed to restart its nuclear programme after the UN Security Council censured it for a long-range rocket launch in April.
In May it staged its second nuclear test and it has also test-fired an array of short and medium-range missiles.
"How could the US talk about a package deal without abandoning its hostile policy and guaranteeing security and peace for us?” Ri was quoted as saying.
"We don't object to dialogue with the US. However, we cannot talk with anyone who hides a knife in his pocket."
Ri also dismissed the UN sanctions, saying his country had been under sanctions for half a century.
US officials should consider why the North has chosen to develop nuclear weapons, hesaid.
"Who will trade security and sovereignty for a small amount of money?" he said.