North Korea Says Still Committed to Nuclear Talks

North Korea said today it has not given up on diplomacy as the forum for resolving the standoff over its nuclear program, the Associated Press reported (see GSN, Jan. 30).

Pyongyang “is sticking to its stand to seek ways of overcoming difficulties lying in the way of the six-party talks and of achieving progress in the talks,” the official Rodong Sinmun newspaper said in a commentary.

Pyongyang, though, alleged that the United States conducted more than 190 spy flights over North Korea this month and is preparing an attack.

“Now that the moves of the forces hostile to (North Korea) have reached their extreme phase, the (North) is left with no other option but to bolster its nuclear deterrent for self-defense,” a Jurists Committee official said (Kwang-Tae Kim, Associated Press/Yahoo!News, Jan. 31).

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