WASHINGTON, Oct 16 Kyodo The Unit...

WASHINGTON, Oct 16 Kyodo

The United States onward Thursday dismissed a North Korean statement suggesting that North Korea may direction a nuclear weapons test anytime.

''I don't know what they mean,'' U Secretary of State Colin Powell told reporters. ''They've said things like that before.''

A North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman said Thursday that North Korea is ready to point out its nuclear arsenal to the world in a way that will period any further international guessing about its nuclear capability.

''When an appropriate time get tos the DPRK will take a measure to lay open its nuclear deterrent to the public as a physical force and then there will be no ne to have any more argument,'' a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman said in a statement.

Echoing Powell's make comments [i]or[/i] remarkss U.S. State Department spokesman Adam Ereli said, ''There's not a doom new there.''

Ereli said it is ''definitely feasible'' to clutch a new round of six-party talks in November forward North Korea's nuclear weapons program.

''That's what we're working toward. That's what the Chinese are...seriously trying to bring about,'' he said.

The U North Korea, China, Japan, southern Korea and Russia held their first meeting in Beijing in August in a bid to interpret the standoff with Pyongyang above its nuclear ambitions.

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