North Korea could launch a nuclear missile unless the U.S. sits down for face-to-face talks, an unnamed North Korean official was quoted as saying Tuesday.
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“We hope the situation will be resolved before an unfortunate incident of us firing a nuclear missile comes,” South Korea’s Yonhap news agency quoted a North Korean official as saying. “That depends on how the U.S. will act.”

The official said the nuclear test was “an expression of our intention to face the United States across the negotiating table,” reported Yonhap, which didn’t say how or where it contacted the official, or why no name was given, according to an Associated Press report.
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President Bush on Monday insisted the United States “remains committed to diplomacy” to settle the dispute.
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