The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) said Monday that the meeting of the working group for six-party talks is "impossible" due to the US' hostile policy toward Pyongyang.  

"The US has become more undisguised in pursuing its hostile policy toward the DPRK, backtracking on all agreements and common understandings reached at the third round of the six-party talks," a DPRK Foreign Ministry spokesman said in a statement carried by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).

KCNA said that during his recent election campaign in Wisconsin State, US President George W. Bush "asserted that it is necessary for the US, China, Japan, South Korea and Russia to unite and they are urging 'the tyrant' to disarm himself."

The DPRK spokesman described Bush as a "political imbecile," accusing him of hurling "malignant slanders and calumnies" against the DPRK leadership.

"This made it quite impossible for the DPRK to go to the talks and deprived it of any elementary justification to sit at the negotiating table with the US," he added.

Representatives from China, the DPRK, the United States, South Korea, Russia and Japan held their third round of talks in Beijing last June on the issue of the Korean Peninsula.

(Xinhua News Agency August 24, 2004)