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North Korea rejects conditions for resuming nuclear talks
Oct 4, 2011, 7:15 GMT
Seoul - North Korea on Tuesday rejected conditions laid down by the United States to resume multilateral talks that aim to end the isolated communist regime's nuclear weapons programme.
'The US is creating a wrong impression that there are things which the DPRK (North Korea) has to do first for the resumption of the talks,' Pyongyang's state-run Korean Central News Agency said.
The US has said the talks, on hold since 2008, could resume once North Korea takes concrete measures towards scaling back its nuclear weapons programme, including uranium enrichment, and lets inspectors in.
The six-party talks involve North and South Korea, China, Russia, the United States and Japan.
Pyongyang had said in recent months it was prepared to resume talks, but without giving details.
'The DPRK calls for resuming the talks without preconditions,' Tuesday's statement said.
Any conditions must apply equally to all participants, it said.
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