PYONGYANG, March 28 (Xinhua) -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Friday categorically denied it had ever carried out uranium enrichment nor had it proliferated nuclear facilities to other countries.

    "The DPRK has never enriched uranium nor rendered nuclear cooperation to any other country. It has never dreamed of such things. Such things will not happen in the future, either," the official news agency KCNA quoted a Foreign Ministry spokesman as saying.

    "The Bush administration was so absurd as to raise the issue of suspected uranium enrichment," the spokesman said. But "taking into consideration the face of the Bush administration," the DPRK rendered necessary sincere help by allowing U.S. experts to see sensitive military objects and providing them with samples, he said.

    As for the issue of "suspected nuclear cooperation with Syria" raised by the United States, the DPRK said it has nothing to do with it. Nevertheless, it still tries to meet the U.S. request for reconfirming its commitment not to proliferate the nuclear technology, the spokesman said.

    "However, the further the negotiations went on, the greater disappointment the attitude of the Bush administration brought to the DPRK," said the spokesman, adding: "The DPRK can never fall victim to the Bush administration's move to justify its wrong assertion."

    The six-party talks, which involve the United States, the DPRK, the Republic of Korea, China, Japan and Russia, on dismantling the DPRK's atomic programs remain stalled by disputes over the issues of "uranium enrichment" and "nuclear proliferation."

    The DPRK has said it gave the U.S. a list of its nuclear programs in November, but the U.S. says it still awaits a "complete and correct " declaration.

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    WASHINGTON, March 26 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with her South Korean counterpart Yu Myung-Hwan here Wednesday with the two sides urging the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to disclose fully all its nuclear programs as soon as possible.

    "It is really time now for there to be movement on the declaration so that with that declaration we have, we can move forward on the next phase," Rice told reporters after the talks with Yu. Full story

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    WASHINGTON, March 19 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill urged Wednesday the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to fully declare its nuclear programs.

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