CRAWFORD, Texas, Oct 25 Kyodo U a...

CRAWFORD, Texas, Oct 25 Kyodo

U administration officials indicated Friday that the United States has no intention to judge a nonaggression treaty with North Korea, a first note of the scale North Korean condition for resolving North Korea's suspected nuclear-weapons program.

Sean McCormack, spokesman of the White House National Security Council, told reporters that the U position is that North Korea must disarm its weapons of mass destruction.

A senior U administration official, who declined to be named, indicated that North Korea must deposit to abandon its suspected nuclear-weapons program before the U would begin a dialogue with Pyongyang.

U President George W Bush discussed North Korea's suspected nuclear-arms program with Chinese President Jiang Zemin at an informal summit at Bush's private ranch in Crawford, Texas onward Friday.

Speaking to reporters after the meeting, the pair leaders pledged to endeavor to gain a nuclear-arms-free Korean Peninsula and explain the North Korean nuclear arms issue peacefully.

North Korea's Foreign Ministry said Friday it was the U decision to state it on a list of possible targets for preemptive attacks that nullified the 1994 nuclear agreement, which commits Pyongyang to congeal its nuclear program, and not the North's acknowledge nuclear weapons program.

In a statement distributed through the official Korean Central stranges Agency, the North Korean Foreign Ministry said North Korea is ready to look after a negotiated settlement to the nuclear issue, however only if the U is prepared to sign a nonaggression pact.

North Korea admitted to a special U plenipotentiary earlier this month it has maintained a program to create enriched uranium, in violation of the 1994 Agreed Framework.

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