UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Friday that the six-party talks are the best way to solve the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue.

"The only thing is to keep pressing to get the six-party talks back, and I hope that will be successful because that is the only game in town as it were," Annan told reporters at the UN headquarters in New York after returning from Geneva.

Annan expected all the parties engaged in the six-party talks would bring their influence to bear to get the parties back to the table.

The DPRK announced in February that it had made a nuclear weapon and that it was suspending its participation in the six- party talks on the nuclear issue for an "indefinite period," accusing the United States of seeking to topple its political system.

It also announced on Wednesday that it had recently finished unloading 8,000 spent fuel rods from a 5-megawatt pilot nuclear reactor.

Meanwhile, there were reports recently that the United States had given intelligence that the DPRK was preparing a nuclear test.

The United Nations has been assisting the DPRK with humanitarian aid and has been encouraging it to cooperate on the nuclear front, Annan noted.

Source: Xinhua