Kim Gye-gwan, head of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's (DPRK) delegation to the six-party talks on Korean Peninsular nuclear issue, on Saturday urged the United States to change its "hostile" policy against his country.

"The United States should change its hostile policy against the DPRK," he said, "The nuclear issues cannot be resolved until the United States take a co-existence policy."

Kim made the remarks at Pyongyang's Sun-an Airport before traveling to Beijing to attend the new round of talks which aim to resolve the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula.

"I'm not optimistic about prospect of the six-party talks because the United States doesn't change its previous stance", he added.

A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman announced Monday the six-party talks between the DPRK, the United States, China, South Korea, Japan and Russia would resume in Beijing on Dec. 18.

Source: Xinhua