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North Korea: United States Is Arrogant and Hostile, Pyongyang Says U.S. diplomats were “hostile” during last week’s high-level talks in Pyongyang, North Korea’s state-run news outlet said yesterday (see GSN, Oct. 7). U.S. envoy James Kelly, who visited for three days of discussions, assumed a “high-handed and arrogant” attitude, North Korean officials said. Kelly “made it clear that the Bush administration is pursuing not a policy of dialogue but a hard-line policy of hostility,” the Korean Central News Agency said (Korean Central News Agency, Oct. 7). The comments contradict Kelly’s own appraisal of the talks, which he described as “frank but useful.” Kelly said he addressed Washington’s “serious concerns” about weapons of mass destruction, conventional forces and humanitarian issues. The North Korean comments also seem to contradict reports that the communist state is open to cutting its conventional forces and removing its military from a state of war readiness — two steps Washington is seeking — according to the Financial Times. North Korea might be trying to create differences between Japan, South Korea and the United States by opening relations with its Asian neighbors and rejecting Washington’s overtures, according to some analysts (Andrew Ward, Financial Times, Oct. 8).
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