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SEOUL, March 1 Asia Pulse - There will be no progress in international efforts to resolve the nuclear issue as long as the United States keeps its hard-line stance, North Korea said Sunday.
"The United States has shown little effort to peacefully coexist with us and has maintained its hard-line stance toward us," a North Korean foreign ministry spokesman told the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
"The six-nation talks could be meaningless to international efforts to resolve the nuclear issue if the U.S. does not change its policies toward us," the North's official news agency quoted the spokesman as saying.
The remarks are the North's first official comments after the end of a second round of talks aimed at resolving the North Korean nuclear crisis among the two Koreas, the U.S., China, Japan and Russia in Beijing Saturday.
The six nations agreed to hold another meeting between April and June. In preparation for the third round, they also agreed on the establishment of a working group to deal with, according to a South Korean official Sunday, the North's suspected highly-enriched uranium (HEU) program and the scope of the communist state's nuclear dismantlement.
The North Korean official went on to say in the KCNA report that his country does not expect much from next round of talks and that prospects for the peaceful resolution of the nuclear ...