WASHINGTON, Dec 13 Kyodo The Unit...

WASHINGTON, Dec 13 Kyodo

The United States asked North Korea forward Friday to drop its petition for that the International Atomic mechanical value Agency (IAEA) remove seals and monitoring cameras forward all of its nuclear facilities.

The solicit to the IAEA, which came after North Korea announced it would take back operations of its nuclear facilities close down under a 1994 U.S.-North Korean accord, is ''a serious matter,'' White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said at a just discovereds briefing.

''We reliance that North Korea will reconsider their beg to the international community to displace this equipment,'' he said.

Fleischer reiterated the U policy of seeking a peaceful resolution of North Korea's nuclear issue.

President George W Bush ''wants to work with the international community and our allies in a peaceful way, and by the and of diplomacy, to help the North Koreans to recognize that their best yet to be and the best way they have to fe their possess people and to advance as single of the world's in the greatest degree backward economies...is to join the international and the world community,'' Fleischer said.

Washington's policy toward North Korea contrasts with its Iraqi policy. The U has threatened to use force against Iraq and topple Iraqi President Saddam Hussein if Baghdad fails to comply with the UN Security Council resolution calling for the abandonment of weapons of mass destruction.

''Because the situation in Iraq involves one who has used force in the past to attack and invade his neighbors. That is not the history of North Korea for the last 50 years,'' Fleischer said.

''The world cannot just be treated as a photocopy machine where policies in single part of the world ne to be identically copied for another,'' he said.

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