With the new round of six-party talks to begin Monday, North Korea said Saturday that it will not treat Japan as a legitimate party to the talks and won’t “deal with” it in the talks.
“We will neither treat Japan as a party to the talks nor deal with it even if it impudently appears in the conference room, lost to shame," a spokesman for North Korea's Foreign Ministry was quoted as saying by the North's Korean Central News Agency, Yonhap News reported.
The North Korea’s spokesman said Japan should not come to the upcoming fresh round of six-party nuclear talks, accusing Tokyo of failing to do its part for a multilateral denuclearization deal.
“Japan is the only country among the participatns in the six-way talks that has not done anything to fulfill its commitment to economic aid," he said.