N.Korea Says No Talks Without U.S. Retraction
Wed Mar 16, 2005 06:45 AM ET
By Jack Kim
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea ruled out on Wednesday a return to stalled six-way talks on its nuclear weapons programs unless the United States retracted its labeling of Pyongyang as an "outpost of tyranny."
A spokesman for the North Korean Foreign Ministry also said recent comments by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in interviews with Reuters and the Washington Times -- in which she refused to apologize for giving the North the tyranny tag -- indicated the United States did not want to hold talks.
"It is quite illogical for the U.S. to intend to negotiate with the DPRK without retracting its remarks listing its dialogue partner as an outpost of tyranny," the spokesman said in comments published by the North's official KCNA news agency.
DPRK is short for the North's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
"This is, in the final analysis, little short of indicating it will not to hold the six-party talks. She can make nothing but such outcries as she is no more than an official of the most tyrannical dictatorial state in the world," he added.
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