The United States reiterated on Friday its call for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to provide a complete nuclear declaration.
Rejecting the DPRK's statement that it had handed over a list of its nuclear programs ahead of a year-end disarmament deadline, State Department Spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters that "The North Koreans need to get about the business of completing this declaration."
"It is another data point that will indicate that they are in fact serious about denuclearizing the Korean peninsula."
McCormack made the remarks after the DPRK's Foreign Ministry said Pyongyang had sent the United States a report on the nuclear declaration in November and denied any links with Syria on nuclear cooperation.
When the United States raised suspicions about uranium enrichment, the DPRK allowed it, as an exception, to visit some military facilities in which imported aluminum tubes were used and offered samples as requested, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said Friday.
The aluminum tubes "had nothing to do with uranium enrichment," KCNA quoted a spokesman of the DPRK's Foreign Ministry as saying.
The DPRK agreed in October at the six party talks to disable its key nuclear facilities at the Yongbyon complex, and to declare all other nuclear programs by the end of 2007.
U.S. officials reportedly said they are ready to wait a short while for a full and complete declaration from Pyongyang.
Source: Xinhua
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