The communique also reiterated Pyongyang's opposition to continuing the long-running six-party talks, involving the two Koreas, China, Russia, the US and Japan, on the nuclear issue. "We have never objected to the denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula and of the world itself," it said. "What we objected to is the structure of the six-way talks which had been used to violate outrageously [North Korea's] sovereignty and its right to peaceful development".
Washington ha dicho que está dispuesto a conversar con Pyongyang, pero solo en el marco de las negociaciones a seis bandas en las que participan además las dos Coreas, Japón, Rusia y China, paralizadas desde diciembre de 2008.