North Korea rejects talks, blames U.S.

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North Korea on Tuesday rejected further talks on its nuclear program and blamed the breakdown in negotiations directly on the United States, claiming Washington wants to rule the world.

In a speech to the U.N. General Assembly that was peppered with anti-American rhetoric, Deputy Foreign Minister Choe Su Hon said U.S. financial sanctions, imposed shortly after a joint statement was issued at six-nation talks on the North's nuclear program on Sept. 19, 2005, had convinced Pyongyang that the negotiations were not worth pursuing.

"It is quite preposterous that the DPRK, under the groundless U.S. sanctions, takes part in the talks on discussing its own nuclear abandonment," Choe said, referring to North Korea's formal name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060926/ap_on_re_as/un_nkorea

[Supersedeas]

1. See how good Dr. Condi is at 'diplomacy' - what a 'notion'

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2. N. Korea: U.S. Torpedoing Nuclear Talks

North Korea accused the United States of torpedoing six-party talks on its nuclear program and then took aim at Japan's new government, saying conservatives were attempting to turn Japanese society to the right and rearm the country.

North Korea's harsh denunciation of Japan at the U.N. General Assembly's ministerial meeting came hours after Shinzo Abe's election Tuesday as Japan's youngest postwar prime minister. A nationalist and proponent of a robust alliance with the United States, Abe has called for a more assertive military and an overhaul of Japan's pacifist constitution.

There was no mention of the elections in the formal speeches to the assembly by North Korea's Deputy Foreign Minister Choe Su Hon and Japan's U.N. Ambassador Kenzo Oshima. But at the end of the session, diplomats from both countries exercised their right of reply and traded fresh accusations.

While never mentioning the election, or Abe's victory, the North Korea diplomat said Japan's conservative authorities ``are attempting to turn the whole society of Japan into the right, expedite the militarization and legitimize its ... aggression by amending the constitution.''


http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6108773,00.html

[OhioChick]

3. The entire world

just loves the US. :sarcasm:

This administration needs to start "talking" with these countries. Their mess will take years, upon years to un-do.

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