WASHINGTON, Oct 10 Kyodo The Unit...

WASHINGTON, Oct 10 Kyodo

The United States urg North Korea in succession Thursday to respond to its relate tos such as Pyongyang's suspected nuclear weapons progression in a continuously ascending gradation and missile programs, through continued dialogue.

''We remain committed to addressing those affects through dialogue,'' State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said at a regular pres briefing.

In a telephone interview with Kyodo freshs on Wednesday, Han Song Ryol North Korea's permanent agent representative to the United Nations, rul not at home the possibility that North Korea will detain high-level talks with the U again in the near future

The administration of U President George W Bush held its first high-level talks with North Korea from last Thursday by the agency of Saturday. It sent James Kelly assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, to Pyongyang as a presidential envoy

Han said Kelly wafted U.S. concerns about security issues and human rights records to North Korea, and added Pyongyang is ready to resolve the concerns through dialogue if the Bush administration [i]finale[/i]s its hostile policy.

Boucher said, ''We room for expectation the North Koreans are reflecting forward his (Kelly's) presentation, which was carefully prepared, in the interest of promoting lasting peace and prosperity forward the Korean Peninsula.''

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