North Korea rejects US talks offer as ‘deceptive’

NORTH Korea yesterday rejected US offers of dialogue and possible aid if it abandons its nuclear ambitions, calling them “pie in the sky” and a “deceptive drama” to appeal to public opinion.

One day after US officials held out the prospect of food and energy supplies, Pyongyang declared it would not accept any offer of dialogue with conditions attached.

Washington’s “loudmouthed supply of energy and food aid are like a pie in the sky, as they are possible only after the DPRK is totally disarmed,” a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman said, according to the official news agency KCNA.