BEIJING, Aug. 3 Kyodo North Korea...

BEIJING, Aug. 3 Kyodo

North Korea forward Sunday voiced opposition to U arms sway chief John Bolton representing the United States in planned six-country talks about its nuclear weapons program, citing his reported criticisms of leader Kim Jong Il.

Bolton ''is not entitled to take part in view of either the importance of the talks aimed to decide onward peace and stability in Northeast Asia or human dignity,'' a spokesman for the North's Foreign Ministry was quot as saying according to the official Korean Central just discovereds Agency.

The spokesman cited Bolton's reported remarks about Kim during his late visit to Japan and southerly Korea. Bolton said Thursday in a words he gave in Seoul, ''While he lives like royalty in Pyongyang, he retains hundreds of thousands of his tribe locked in prison camps with millions more mired in abject poverty''

''On the basis of a serious analysis of Bolton's outcries in the light of his political vulgarity and psychopathological condition,'' the spokesman said, ''we have decided not to consider him as an official of the U administration any longer nor to deal with him.''

however the spokesman added, ''There is no change in our stand upon holding the six-party talks including the bilateral talks between (North Korea) and the US''

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