North Korea warned today that it is continuing to develop its nuclear weapons and suggested it would not participate in future talks on resolving the Korean Peninsula’s nuclear crisis.  The pronouncement came as senior U.S., South Korean and Japanese officials met in Tokyo to coordinate their strategy (see GSN, Sept. 29).

“We are taking concrete measures to keep and further strengthen our nuclear deterrent force as self-defense aimed at preventing a nuclear pre-emptive strike by the U.S. and guarantee peace and security on the Korean Peninsula,” a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman said.

“We have lost interest in or expectations for talks when it has been proved that the U.S. has no willingness to build peaceful coexistence with us but spares no efforts to use the six-way talks to completely disarm us,” he continued.

In Tokyo, the policy coordination talks were led by U.S. Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly, South Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Lee Soo-hyuck and their Japanese counterpart, Mitoji Yabunaka (Associated Press/Yahoo!News, Sept. 29).

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