Message taken from White House to N Korea

A top White House adviser has personally delivered a pointed message to North Korean officials in New York, urging them to act on a nuclear disarmament pledge and telling them that US patience is limited, a US official said.

Victor Cha, President George Bush’s top adviser on North Korea, told the North Koreans yesterday that frustration is rising 10 days after the North missed a deadline to shut down its main nuclear reactor.