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N.Korea 'will hold talks, but not with Bolton' SEOUL, Sunday (Reuters) North Korea said on Sunday there was no change in its stand on holding six-way talks to resolve the communist country's 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," the North's official KCNA news agency quoted Pyongyang's foreign ministry spokesman as saying. "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. Meanwhile the United States and Japan are considering forming a multinational nuclear inspection team to ensure North Korea abandons its nuclear weapons programmes completely, a Japanese newspaper reported on Sunday. |
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