 The Bush administration said Friday that it wasn't interested in one-on-one talks with North Korea about its nuclear programs outside the six-party negotiations involving the communist nation's neighbors. "It's not an issue between North Korea and the United States. It's a regional issue," White House press secretary Scott McClellan said. "And it's an issue that impacts all of its neighbors."
| Looks like Kimmie's temper tantrum didn't work. |
North Korea has plenty of opportunity to talk to the United States within six-party talks, McClellan said. In an interview with a South Korean newspaper Friday, North Korea's U.N. envoy demanded bilateral talks with the United States. "We will return to the six-nation talks when we see a reason to do so and the conditions are ripe," Han Sung Ryol told Seoul's Hankyoreh newspaper in an interview published Friday. "If the United States moves to have direct dialogue with us, we can take that as a signal that the United States is changing its hostile policy toward us."
| Looks like we're not changing our hostile policy to them. |
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