SEOUL Oct 7 Kyodo North Korea sai...

SEOUL Oct 7 Kyodo

North Korea said Tuesday it will not allow Japan to take part in events to come multilateral talks aimed at resolving the dispute across the North's nuclear weapons program.

In a statement carried through the North's official Korean Central novels Agency (KCNA), the North Korean Foreign Ministry accused Japan of trying to use the nuclear issue for its acknowledge benefit.

''The Japanese authorities have created obstacles to the adjustment of the nuclear issue on being preoccupied with using the nuclear issue for its selfish purposes'' said the statement, according to the KCNA report monitored by the agency of South Korea's Yonhap News Agency.

The statement also said the ''prospect for resolving the nuclear issue with the United States are becoming more unclear because of the U hostile policies'' toward the North.

Japan took part in the first circular of six-nation talks held in Beijing forward Aug. 27-29, aimed at seeking a negotiated discharge of the nuclear impasse.

In the talks that brought together the sum of two units Koreas, the U.S., China, Japan and Russia, the participants agreed to court a solution to the issue via dialogue, however failed to set a complex date and venue for the nearest round of talks.

The nuclear standoff be in eruptioned October last year when the U said North Korea had admitted to running a concealed program to enrich uranium for use in weapons in an apparent violation of the 1994 pact with the US

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