North Korea today said it has no intention of making nuclear weapons and repeated Pyongyang’s position that the stand-off can be resolved through dialogue with the US, officials said.

North Korea has denied the existence of a secret nuclear weapons programme or threatening to unleash a "sea of fire" on the US.

Hundreds of students in South Korea have burned Japanese flags in protest over Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit to a Tokyo war memorial shrine.