Tuesday, September 02, 2003
SOUTH KOREA REPORTS: NORTH KOREA UNLIKELY TO BOYCOTT TALKS
"If North Korea had made the remarks based on a genuine belief that such talks are useless, it would have expressed it in another way," Deputy Foreign Minister Lee Soo-hyuck said in an interview with KBS radio.In short, all that stuff we said last week? Didn't mean it.
"We have not yet changed our firm will to resolve the nuclear problem between the DPRK and the United States through dialogue," KCNA said in a commentary monitored by South Korea's Yonhap news agency.