DPRK: talks "impossible" due to US hostile policy

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) said Monday that the six-party talks will not be opened due to US hostile policy toward Pyongyang.

"The meeting of the working group for the six-party talks can not be opened because the US has become more undisguised in pursuing its hostile policy toward the DPRK, backtracking from allagreements and common understanding reached at the third round of the six-party talks," a DPRK Foreign Ministry spokesman said in a statement.

"The Bush group has betrayed its true colors once again though it is directly responsible for properly laying a foundation for the talks. This made it quite impossible for the DPRK to go to thetalks and deprived it of any elementary justification to sit at the negotiating table with the US," he added.

In the statement, which was carried through the Korean Central News Agency, the spokesman also described US President George W. Bush as "political imbecile," saying he had hurled "malignant slanders and calumnies" against DPRK leadership.

Representatives from China, the DPRK, the United States, the Republic of Korea, Russia and Japan held their third round of talks in Beijing last June on the issue of Korean Peninsula.

Source: Xinhua