Home>News Center>World
         
 

DPRK doesn't care who wins US election
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-03-11 16:51

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) dismissed any idea it wanted George W. Bush to lose November's U.S. presidential election, saying Thursday the key for the winner -- Democrat or Republican -- would be to change policy toward Pyongyang.

A day earlier, DPRK threatened to boost the nuclear deterrent it says it has and blamed the U.S. stance in recent six-party talks for forcing its hand. Washington dismissed the apparently tougher line from Pyongyang as rhetoric.

Analysts say little progress on curbing DPRK's nuclear programs was now likely before the U.S. presidential elections in November, thus giving Pyongyang more time to try to develop a nuclear capability.

Pyongyang denied it could be stalling in six-way talks over its nuclear ambitions to see whether a more amenable Democratic U.S. president is elected, saying it did not care which party's candidate triumphed in the U.S. presidential election.

"Whoever (is) elected U.S. president should be willing to make a switchover in its policy toward the DPRK, drop the hostile policy toward it and express readiness to coexist with it," the official KCNA news agency said. 

"This is a main point," it said.

"If the U.S. makes a switchover in its policy toward the DPRK, though belatedly, progress will be made in the settlement of the nuclear issue," KCNA said.

In Seoul, South Korea's chief nuclear negotiator voiced hopes that initial working group meetings, which were agreed at the Beijing talks, could be held between April and June before a new round of six-party talks.

"We will make our best efforts to get the North Korean nuclear issue to a settlement phase through a third round of talks after holding one or two working group meetings during the second quarter of the year," Yonhap news agency quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Lee Soo-hyuck as saying.

The United States has demanded the "complete, verifiable and irreversible dismantlement" of the North's nuclear programs that are believed to involve both plutonium and uranium.

The North statement Wednesday voiced anger at such demands and followed similar shows of defiance since six-way talks involving the two Koreas, China, the United States, Japan and Russia in Beijing last month.

"The reckless U.S. stance only pushes the DPRK to further increase its nuclear deterrent force," the state-run KCNA news agency Wednesday cited a Foreign Ministry spokesman as saying.

The impasse "does nothing bad to the DPRK as it will have time to take more necessary steps with increased pace," he said.

In Washington, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage said DPRK's latest statement did not reflect the position Pyongyang took at the negotiations.

U.S. officials say they believe DPRK already possesses one or two nuclear weapons and that the state could be making more.

ELECTION HOLD-UP

The United States has said it is in no hurry to put together a deal because it wants to take time to come up with an accord that will stick.

However, analysts on North Korea said the administration of Bush, who has branded North Korea part of an "axis of evil" with Iran and pre-war Iraq, may prefer to intensify the pressure.

"The administration seems incapable of making any kind of deal or doing serious negotiations," said Daniel Pinkston, a North Korean expert at the Monterey Institute's Center for Non-Proliferation Studies in California.

Pinkston said he saw small signs of gradual convergence on the plutonium program, although he expected no progress before the U.S. elections.

"The North Koreans are going to wait until after the election because they saw a big policy reverse after Clinton," he said.

In October 2002, the United States said the North had admitted to developing nuclear arms -- violating a Clinton-era agreement.

In early 2003, Pyongyang expelled U.N. nuclear inspectors, pulled out of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and removed their seals from a mothballed reactor.

"The far-fetched U.S. assertion about this program is intended to attack the DPRK under that pretext just as it did against Iraq," KCNA quoted the North Korean spokesman as saying in a renewed denial of the existence of a uranium program.



USS Park Royal crew await for Rice
Coffin of Milosevic flew to Belgrade
Kidnapping spree in Gaza Strip
 
  Today's Top News     Top World News
 

Australia, US, Japan praise China for Asia engagement

 

   
 

Banker: China doing its best on flexible yuan

 

   
 

Hopes high for oil pipeline deal

 

   
 

Possibilities of bird flu outbreaks reduced

 

   
 

Milosevic buried after emotional farewell

 

   
 

China considers trade contracts in India

 

   
  Journalist's alleged killers held in Iraq
   
  No poisons found in Milosevic's body
   
  US, Britain, France upbeat on Iran agreement
   
  Fatah officials call for Abbas to resign
   
  Sectarian violence increases in Iraq
   
  US support for troops in Iraq hits new low
   
 
  Go to Another Section  
 
 
  Story Tools  
   
  Related Stories  
   
Poll finds Bush, Kerry tied in race
   
Kerry: Bush 'stonewalling' 9/11 probe
   
Buffett says Bush tax cuts favor wealthy
   
Bush to raise $3 million on Monday
   
New ads call Kerry 'rich liberal elitist'
   
Bush blasts 1995 Kerry intelligence bill
   
Kerry hits back at Bush, Cheney over leadership
Manufacturers, Exporters, Wholesalers - Global trade starts here.
Advertisement
         
主站蜘蛛池模板: 亚洲欧美日韩国产vr在线观 | japanese国产在线观看| 日本免费中文字幕在线看| 亚洲国产成人av网站| 四虎成人影院网址| 3d玉蒲团之极乐宝鉴| 天天操天天摸天天干| 三级视频在线播放| 日本亚洲中午字幕乱码| 五月天在线婷婷| 日本阿v精品视频在线观看| 天天干视频在线观看| 丁香伊人五月综合激激激| 日本午夜免费福利视频| 亚洲av无码一区二区三区电影 | 日本猛少妇色xxxxx猛交| 亚洲av日韩综合一区尤物| 美女脱下裤子让男人捅| 国产国产精品人在线视| 色综合综合色综合色综合| 国产精品白浆在线观看无码专区| 99在线在线视频免费视频观看| 日本欧美一区二区三区在线播放| 亚洲一区二区三区在线| 欧美日韩在线视频一区| 啊灬啊灬别停啊灬用力| 视频一本大道香蕉久在线播放| 国产成人福利在线| 欧美另类黑人巨大videos| 国产精品久久精品福利网站| 4480新热播影院| 国产老熟女网站| 8090韩国理伦片在线天堂| 国色天香精品一卡2卡3卡| 中文字幕美日韩在线高清| 日本妇人成熟免费不卡片| 久久精品一区二区三区不卡| 最刺激黄a大片免费观看下截| 亚洲中文字幕人成乱码| 欧美乱妇高清无乱码在线观看| 亚洲国产精品无码久久久蜜芽|