WASHINGTON, July 21 Kyodo U Presi...

WASHINGTON, July 21 Kyodo

U President George W Bush forward Monday stressed the need for the United States and regional powers to unite with a ''single voice'' to convince North Korean leader Kim Jong Il that his pursuit of nuclear arms is an unwise decision.

''I do believe we can unfold this issue diplomatically by encouraging the neighborhood -- the Chinese, the southern Koreans and the Japanese -- to join us with a single voice that says to Mr Kim Jong Il: A decision to lay open a nuclear arsenal is single in kind that will alienate you from the caesura of the world,'' Bush said.

Bush shrugg facing a New York Times report Sunday that mighty evidence has emerged in new weeks that North Korea has built a next to the first secret plant to produce weapons-grade plutonium.

''The desire on the North Koreans to convince the world that they're in the proces of developing a nuclear arsenal is nothing new'' Bush told a joint freshs conference with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi at his ranch in Texas.

In Washington, State Department spokesman Philip Reeker said he cannot confirm the of the present day York Times report about a other nuclear reprocessing site.

''We receive a steady stream of information onward various types of activity in North Korea, frequently of which is unsubstantiated and can't be confirmed,'' Reeker told a regular pres briefing.

Reeker responding to a renewed demand from Pyongyang for a nonaggression treaty with the U reiterated that the U has no intention to launch a military attack upon North Korea.

''We've made quite clear that we have no intention to attack North Korea,'' he said.

''That is the basis forward which we are trying to try to obtain the multilateral talks, and the same thing we discussed with the Chinese delegation in succession Friday,'' Reeker said, referring to the talks in Washington between Secretary of State Colin Powell and Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo.

Earlier Monday, North Korea renewed its demand for a nonaggression treaty with the U saying negotiations based in succession ''equality and confidence'' are the sole way to resolve the nuclear standoff, according to North Korea's official Korean Central stranges Agency.

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