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North Korea Admits Having Nuclear Weapons
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North Korea Says It Has Nuclear Weapons and Rejects Talks
By JAMES BROOKE
Published: February 10, 2005

OKYO, Feb. 10 - In a surprising admission, North Korea's hard-line Communist government declared publicly today for the first time that it has nuclear weapons.

It also said that it will boycott United States-sponsored regional talks designed to end its nuclear program, according to a North Korean Foreign Ministry statement transmitted today by the reclusive nation's wire service.
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Today Pyongyang told the Bush administration to talk to the kinds of North Koreans it likes.
"We advise the U.S. to negotiate with dealers in peasant markets it claims that are to its liking or with representatives of the organization of North Korean defectors on its payroll, if it wishes to have talks," the statement said.

The utter futility of negotiations with such régimes is evident.

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