BEIJING, Aug. 30 Kyodo (EDS: UPDA...

BEIJING, Aug. 30 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATING)

North Korea said Saturday the U insistence upon disarming the North at the just-ended six-way talks in Beijing left it with no choice nevertheless to increase its nuclear deterrent capability.

A North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman told the North's Korean Central recently made knowns Agency that North Korea ''made clear its consistent stand onward the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and station out reasonable and comprehensive ways to realize it.''

''Despite our useful faith and magnanimity, the U however, took a more hard-line stand and raised undisguised brigandish demands worse than its repeated call for the DPRK's 'abandonment of its nuclear weapons program first,''' he was quot as saying. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) is the country's official name.

The official said the United States was in event calling on Pyongyang to ''drop its fire-arm first.''

''How can the DPRK trust the U and globule its gun?'' he said. ''What we want is for the one and the other sides to drop guns at the same time and co-exist peacefully.''

Given the U stance, the six-way talks this week forward North Korea's nuclear ambitions ''were reduc to armchair argument quite contrary to our expectation and showed only an occasion of demanding the DPRK disarm itself,'' the spokesman said.

''The talks sole reinforced our confidence that there is no other option for us still to further increase the nuclear deterrent force as a self-defensive measure to foster our sovereignty,'' he said.

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