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Direct Talks between DPRK and U.S. Urged

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

   Pyongyang, June 21 (KCNA) -- Voices accusing the U.S. administration of its Korea policy and calling for DPRK-U.S. direct talks for a solution to the nuclear issue are growing louder in the U.S. political circles these days. Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Armitage in an interview with the Kyodo News of Japan criticized the Korea policy of Bush, advising the U.S. administration to put forward a package compensation proposal to the DPRK and promote negotiations on the nuclear issue.
    David Strube, former section chief for Korean affairs of the U.S. State Department, told a reporter that Bush was unwilling to have dialogue with the DPRK, judging from the abuses he hurled on its leadership. At the six-party talks, he noted, Bush insisted on the strategy of putting pressure on the DPRK while convincing it that it was "isolated" in the international community. But, in actuality, it is the U.S. and Japan that were isolated at the talks.
    He ridiculed the U.S. act of ignoring the reasoning of other countries participating in the six-party talks.
    U.S. Senator Joseph Biden told a reporter that Bush's Korea policy had come a cropper. The U.S. needs to have direct talks with the DPRK for a solution to the nuclear issue, he said.