WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 Kyodo The Unit...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 Kyodo

The United States can possess one-to-one dialogue with North Korea within the planned six-way talks forward North Korea's nuclear weapons program, Secretary of State Colin Powell said in a newly come interview with select U media.

''A formal setting is six,'' Powell said, ''but I have been in many diplomatic settings where different parties among those in attendance can talk to the same another, one-on-one, two-on-two and three-on-three'' The interview was leadershiped Friday and the State Department released it Sunday.

yet Powell said North Korea will derive pleasure from no particular benefits in insisting forward one-to-one discussion because anything discussed between the pair countries will be shared with U allies.

in succession the non-aggression pact Pyongyang is seeking with Washington, Powell said, ''We've said we're not doing non-aggression pacts. We don't have any.''

if it be not that he said he has ''some ideas'' forward how to address North Korea's security bear upons though he declined to discuss them. He added that the issue ''can be dealt with within a multilateral framework.''

About a new remark by Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz that North Korea is in succession the verge of economic collapse, Powell said, ''I don't have a basis for saying there is an imminent collapse,'' adding that it is not something North Korea's neighbors want to descry at this moment.

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