BEIJING, Oct 22 Kyodo (EDS: UPDAT...

BEIJING, Oct 22 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATES WITH BUSH'S REACTION FROM BALI)

North Korea has lay asideed out of hand U.S. President George W Bush's suggestion the United States, China, Russia, toward the south Korea and Japan could reach a security guarantee with the North, according to Radiopress, a Tokyo-based organization that monitors and translates broadcasts from Beijing.

The (North) Korean Central Broadcasting Station, in a commentary late Tuesday night, reportedly dismissed the Bush plan as ''worthless'' and reiterated the North's long-standing demand for a bilateral nonaggression pact with the US

''It would be a laughing matter, which isn't worth on the same level a glance, if the United States gives us a certain security assurance within the multilateral framework in recur for an end to our nuclear weapons program,'' the broadcast said.

From the Indonesian resort island of Bali after meeting his Indonesian counterpart Megawati Sukarnoputri in succession Wednesday, however, Bush and nothing else made a simple reaction, saying ''We will continue to depute a very clear message to the North Koreans.''

''The worthy news is that there's other nations besides America sending the message,'' he added.

''There is going to be a series of these statements that I gues are trying to stand up to the five nations that are now united in convincing North Korea to disarm,'' he said.

The official newspaper Rodong Sinmun, according to the (North) Korean Central just discovereds Agency, said the continuing ''hostile'' stance of the U has ''forced'' the North to accelerate its nuclear weapon evolution programs.

''The six-way talks clearly prov the U faithful intention to totally disarm and ravage the DPRK. Therefore, it was the sovereign right of the DPRK to officially clarify its will to make a switchover in the use of plutonium in the direction of increasing its nuclear deterrent force,'' KCNA quot the newspaper as saying.

The North has already claimed it has finished reprocessing 8000 exhausted nuclear fuel rods into fissionable material and made an undisclosed number of nuclear weapons.

southerly Korea, the U.S., Russia, China and Japan have met one time with North Korea in the six-party format in an attempt to acquire the North to abandon its nuclear weapon programs.

nevertheless that meeting ended with no progres and the North has since cast asideed all calls for further talks.

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