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To: combjelly who wrote (218783)	2/11/2005 10:52:33 AM
From: Road Walker	Respond to of 1578590

U.S. Rejects North Korea's Demand for Direct Talks 24 minutes ago Politics - Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Friday rejected North Korea (news - web sites)'s demands for direct talks over its nuclear weapons program and insisted on six-party negotiations. "There's plenty of opportunities for North Korea to speak directly with us in the context of the six-party talks," said White House spokesman Scott McClellan. North Korea said for the first time on Thursday that it possessed nuclear weapons and a North Korean diplomat at the United Nations (news - web sites) in New York said: "If the United States wants to talk to us directly, it can be seen as a sign of a change in the U.S. hostile policy toward North Korea." McClellan insisted President Bush (news - web sites) will stick to the negotiating format in which the United States, China, South Korea (news - web sites), Japan and Russia negotiate with North Korea. The six parties have held three rounds of talks since August 2003 and the process has stalled. "All of North Korea's neighbors in the region recognize that this is a regional problem and it requires a multilateral approach for resolving it," McClellan said. "We believe the six-party talks, like North Korea's neighbors, are the way to resolve the situation." He said that as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites) said on Thursday, "North Korea should have no reason to believe that any nation wants to attack them, that there's a proposal on the table that provides the way forward for North Korea to eliminate its nuclear weapons program and to realize better relations with the international community when they make that commitment."