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[papau]

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=3661280

North Korea Says U.S. Security Offer Laughable
Tue October 21, 2003 08:28 PM ET

<snip>During a summit this week of Asian-Pacific leaders in Bangkok, President Bush made a significant shift in policy by saying he was sharing ideas with other regional leaders on how to give North Korea security guarantees short of a non-aggression treaty.

"We have asked for the United States to stop its hostile policy and a bilateral treaty between North Korea and the United States, and not for some sort of security guarantee," said KCNA in a Korean-language commentary.

"It's laughable and doesn't deserve even any consideration that the United States gives a security guarantee on the condition that we drop our nuclear development." <snip>