North Korea has rejected President Lee Myung-bak’s grand bargain proposal to resolve Pyongyang’s nuclear standoff.

The North’s Korean Central Television on Thursday called the grand bargain an attempt by Seoul to intervene in Pyongyang’s and Washington’s efforts to resolve the North’s nuclear issue.

The report said the nuclear issue is a matter that needs to be resolved between the North and the U.S., as Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons are the product of Washington’s so-called hostile policy toward the North.

The North said it will, as before, seek to build a world without nuclear arms and to establish a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula.

On a U.S.-backed resolution recently adopted at the United Nations that calls for a world free of nuclear weapons, the report said the resolution failed to fully reflect the views of the entire international community.

On the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, the report said it is unimaginable for Pyongyang to go back to being a nonnuclear state and reiterated that it will seek to resolve its nuclear impasse only through negotiations with the U.S.

President Lee proposed the grand bargain last Tuesday during a luncheon hosted by The Korea Society and the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. The deal centers on North Korea dismantling key aspects of its nuclear program while at the same time providing the North with a security guarantee and international aid.