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KCNA: Pyongyang Reconsidering Participation in Nuke Talks

Written: 2004-12-14 10:32:49Updated: 0000-00-00 00:00:00

North Korea's official KCNA News Agency says the communist state is re-examining whether it will participate at all in six-nation nuclear talks programs because of what it alleges are U.S. efforts to bring down the regime in Pyongyang.

According to the state-run news agency Monday, a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman denounced Washington for its "smear campaign" and accused the George W. Bush administration of trying to topple the North's reclusive regime.

Calling the U.S. "a party extremely disgusting and hateful," the spokesman was quoted as saying that "the frantic U.S. smear campaign against the North reminds Pyongyang of the eve of [America's] aggression against Afghanistan and Iraq."

The latest remarks represent a hardening of Pyongyang's position from a ministry statement earlier this month that said that the North would not return to the six-party talks until re-elected President Bush had assembled his new team and Washington had decided on its North Korea policy.

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