North Korea Says 'impossible' To Attend Talks With U.S.

SEOUL, Aug 23 (AFP) - North Korea said Monday it was "impossible" to hold new talks with the United States aimed at ending a stand-off over the communist country's nuclear weapons drive.
A North Korean foreign ministry spokesman said a working-group meeting to prepare for new six-nation talks could not be opened because of Washington's hostile policy toward Pyongyang.
"This made it quite impossible for the DPRK (North Korea) to go to the talks and deprived it of any elementary justification to sit at the negotiating table with the US," he said in a statement carried through the North's official Korean Central News Agency.