Special Report: The sixth round of six-party talks

    PYONGYANG, July 14 (Xinhua) -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Saturday urged the United States to change its hostile policy against it, saying the settlement of the nuclear issue depends on (the change in) U.S. policy.

    "The United States should prove its confirmation, made in the Sept. 19 joint statement adopted at the six-party talks, that it has no nuclear weapons in South Korea and that it has no intention to attack or invade the DPRK... in a verifiable manner to be quite understandable to others," said a statement issued by the official Korean National Peace Committee.

    The DPRK's remarks came after it has pledged to shut down its nuclear facilities at Yongbyon.

    A 10-member team of U.N. inspectors arrived in Pyongyang on Saturday to verify and monitor the shutdown and sealing of the nuclear facilities in Yongbyon.

    The DPRK reaffirmed that U.S. policy is the key for the settlement of the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue.

    "The settlement of the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula entirely depends on the U.S. switchover in its policy toward the DPRK," it said.