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North Korea's official KCNA news agency on Wednesday warned any mention of the country¡¯s human rights record at the next round of six-party talks on its nuclear program could spell the end of negotiations.
Reacting to a conference on North Korean human rights that started in Washington on Tuesday, the KCNA said ¡°provocative acts like slandering and showing envy of your dialogue partner¡± were unlikely to produce results and ¡°can bring only conflict and rupture.¡± It said the U.S., by bringing up ¡°non-existent human rights issues¡± and issuing ¡°political provocations,¡± was robbing other neighboring states of their hopes for substantive progress in the six-party talks.
The agency complained the conference organized by Freedom House, a group promoting U.S. leadership in spreading global democracy, was of unprecedented size and came just prior to the resumption of the talks. "This is inappropriate behavior incompatible with dialogue," it said.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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