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North Korea says will hold talks, but not with Bolton
( 2003-08-03 10:53) (Agencies)

North Korea said Sunday there was no change in its stand on holding six-way talks to resolve its nuclear ambitions, but would not consider U.S. Undersecretary of State John Bolton as an official for any dialogue.

Bolton earlier this week referred to life in North Korea as a "hellish nightmare," where North Korean leader Kim Jong-il lived like royalty while keeping hundreds of thousands of his people in prison camps and millions more mired in poverty.

"There is no change in our stand on holding the six-party talks including the bilateral talks between the DPRK and the U.S. for the peaceful settlement of the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula," North Korea's KCNA news agency quoted Pyongyang's foreign ministry spokesman as saying.

DPRK is an acronym for North Korea.

"On the basis of a serious analysis of Bolton's outcries in the light of his political vulgarity and psychopathological condition, as they are quite different from the recent remarks of the U.S. president, we have decided not to consider him as an official of the U.S. administration any longer nor to deal with him," the spokesman said.

North Korea and the United States said Friday they had agreed to hold six-way talks on the nuclear standoff. China, Japan, Russia and South Korea will also attend.

The crisis began last October when Washington said Pyongyang had admitted to pursuing a covert nuclear weapons program.

 
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