N Korea says no talks with U.S.

North Korea has said it will not be returning to the negotiating table with the United States, media reports said Wednesday, dpa reported.

Pyongyang said while it was not opposed to a dialogue, it will not sit down at a "humiliating negotiating table with the party brandishing a nuclear stick," according to a statement by North Korea's Foreign Ministry.

The insistence by the US that the North demonstrate its "will for denuclearization" before any negotiation was "a very impudent hostile act," said the statement carried by the Korean Central News Agency Tuesday.

US Secretary of State John Kerry urged North Korea last week to take "meaningful steps" toward denuclearization and allow the resumption of six-party talks involving the Koreas, Japan, the US, Russia and China.


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