The United States reiterated calls on Friday for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ( DPRK) to return to the six-party talks and realize a nuclear-free Korean peninsula.

"We'd like to see them (DPRK) return to the six-party talks. They say a lot of things. We want to see them come back and be prepared to talk in a serious way about how to move forward," White House spokesman Scott McClellan said.

"We are all saying we want to see a nuclear weapons-free peninsula, and the way to get there is through the six-party talks. We've made that very clear to North Korea," he said.

McClellan said there are no preconditions for the United States to return to the six-party talks.

Three rounds of the six-party talks have been held to try to resolve the DPRK nuclear issue. The six-party talks have been stalled since June last year as the DPRK accused the United States of adopting a hostile policy towards Pyongyang.

Source: Xinhua