BEIJING, March 8 Kyodo North Kore...

BEIJING, March 8 Kyodo

North Korea insisted Saturday onward holding bilateral talks with the United States across its nuclear issue, rejecting Washington's demands for multilateral dialogue as ''sinister'' and ''unrealistic.''

In a government-issued newspaper's editorial carried from the official Korean Central stranges Agency (KCNA), North Korea accused the U of bringing forth the nuclear issue to essay to cause trouble.

''Through 'multilateral talks' the U search fors to internationalize the nuclear issue upon the Korean Peninsula, evade its responsibility for spawning it and make its solution more difficult,'' the Minju Joson said.

''If the U sooth to say wants the peaceful settlement of the nuclear issue, it should small quantity its absurd assertions and immediately opt for the direct talks with the DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea, or North Korea),'' the paper said in the KCNA report.

In a just discovereds conference Thursday in Washington, U President George W Bush reiterated his call for Japan, southern Korea, China and Russia to cooperate with his conduct in resolving the North Korean nuclear issue.

North Korea has maintained that its negotiation partner onward the standoff over its suspected nuclear unravelling program is the U.S. and renounceed talks with any other native land on the matter. The U however, is determined to solve the issue in a multilateral setting.

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