"The Bush administration has repeatedly nullified a series of international treaties, including the Anti-Missile Treaty and the Kyoto Protocol as well as the Agreed Framework and the New York Joint Statement reached with Pyongyang, out of its own interests," a DPRK Foreign Ministry was quoted as saying by the Korean Central News Agency.

The spokesman accused Washington of making contradictory remarks and acts, including the deployment of the Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier around the Korean Peninsula although Washington has claimed that it has no intention to invade the DPRK.

Under the 1994 Agreed Framework, the DPRK froze its nuclear facilities in return for help in building two lightwater reactors for power generation.

It is the "arrogant" US special envoy James Kelly who forced the DPRK to acknowledge that it was developing an enriched-uranium program, the spokesman said, adding that it is not necessary for the DPRK to acknowledge or deny anything concerning the nuclear issue.

The nuclear crisis erupted last October when Kelly claimed that the DPRK was developing an enriched-uranium program for nuclear weapons in violation of the Agreed Framework. However Pyongyang said it has no intention to develop nuclear weapons and is calling for a non-aggression treaty with Washington.

The DPRK stands firmly opposed to the internationalization of the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula because it is a bilateral problem between the United States and the DPRK, the spokesman said. He added that the DPRK will never participate in any multilateral talks on the matter.

(Xinhua News Agency January 29, 2003)