TOKYO (AFP) - US envoy Christopher Hill has called for "concrete action" from the international community on North Korea to press the communist state to give up its nuclear program.
"We are interested in trying to resolve this problem to protect both our countries against the possibility of further developments of North Korea's weapons programs," Hill told reporters in Japan on the first leg of a regional tour.
"The problem we've had is that we do not have a negotiator on the other side," Hill said after talks at the foreign ministry.
He said it was important that UN Security Council Resolution 1695, which slapped sanctions on the North's missile program, was "followed up by concrete action and its full implementation."
The resolution, which was watered down from its original form, was passed unanimously in July in response to North Korea's test-launching of seven missiles.
Hill's latest trip to the region comes amid media reports that North Korea may be about to test a nuclear bomb. Pyongyang said in February 2005 that it was a nuclear power but is not known to have tested an atomic weapon.
Hill, the assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, said he could not confirm reports of an imminent nuclear test or speculation that North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il was en route to China for emergency talks.
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In North Korea they believe and teach that the Americans started they Korean War, now as any educated person can tell you North Korea attacked South Korea on June 25th 1950, but this does not deter them in anyway.
The problem with North Korea is the nukes, and with them they can keep their neighbors hostage. Which is why we are so bent on not having Iran have the same capabilities.
The communist state has long claimed the United States is bent on invading the country, condemning annual joint military exercises with South Korean troops as a "rehearsal" for an attack, the United States and South Korea have denied this.
North Korea of course believes otherwise and nothing will convince them of the truth. They hate us and consider us the enemy. Far as I'm concerned they can think anything they want because they don't have the power to do anything.
North Korea's Minju Joson newspaper cited planned drills with South Korea and other U.S. military activity in the Asia-Pacific region as evidence Washington was preparing to invade.
"The U.S. strengthening military moves on and around the Korean Peninsula is nothing but a premeditated maneuver to realize its hostile policy aimed at militarily stifling our republic," the North Korean newspaper said in a commentary carried by the official Korean Central News Agengy.
"Under the current tense situation, the nuclear deterrent force of our republic effectively contributes to guaranteeing peace and safety of our republic ... (We) will make every effort to solidify our self-defense force".
If we wanted to invade that country we would do so with ease, but one step at a time first we must deal with Iran. This little madman can hate us all he wants, he doesn't have the most advanced and strongest armed force's in the world.
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