[USFK Forums] N. Korea says nuclear talks suspended 'indefinitely' [AFP]

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Sunday December 11, 06:40 AM

NKorea says nuclear talks suspended 'indefinitely'

SEOUL (AFX) - North Korea's foreign ministry has said six-nation talks on dismantling Pyongyang's nuclear program have been suspended 'for an indefinite period' because of US financial sanctions on the Stalinist state.

In its latest response to a US envoy calling Pyongyang a 'criminal regime' engaged in money laundering and counterfeiting, a spokesman for North Korea's foreign ministry told the Korean Central News Agency the US was 'faking up lies' to disrupt the six-way talks.'

The US is now overturning the basic principles of the joint statement reached at the six-party talks one by one,' the spokesman said in an interview with the agency conducted on Saturday and carried on Sunday.

'It scuttled the DPRK (North Korean)-US financial talks, in particular, holding off the six-party talks for an indefinite period.'A proposed US-North Korean meeting on the financial sanctions did not take place this month, as North Korea wanted to negotiate on the issue while the US simply wanted to hold a briefing instead.

The six-way talks involving China, the two Koreas, the US, Russia and Japan are aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear weapons programs but have been deadlocked, with North Korea threatening a boycott over the US sanctions.

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