By KUNA
Tokyo : North Korea warned Friday that it may halt the disablement process of its key nuclear facilities unless Washington drops its “unreasonable” demand over the country’s suspected uranium enrichment program.
“If the US keeps insisting what does not exist exists and delays the settlement of the nuclear issue, it would have a serious impact on the disablement of nuclear facilities,” a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman said in a statement, carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.
“We have never engaged in uranium enrichment activities or nuclear cooperation with other countries and have never even thought about them. Such activities will never happen in the future, too,” the spokesman said.
The spokesman also dismissed US concerns that Pyongyang may be helping Syria develop a nuclear weapons facility.
The six-way talks, that involve the two Koreas, the US, China, Japan and Russia, have stalled since North Korea missed an end-of-2007 deadline to reaveal its nuclear programs and proliferation activities under the October 3 agreement.
North Korea claims it submitted the list in November, while the US is calling for a “complete and correct” declaration that includes its alleged uranium enrichment program and suspected transfer of nuclear technology to Syria.