U.S. Aims to Undermine Its Rule, Regime Says

North Korea said the Bush administration was blocking prospects for dialogue by plotting to dismantle its communist system.

“North Korea’s stand on dialogue is to get its political system recognized by the U.S., not to allow itself to be disarmed or abandon its system,” said the state-run Korean Central News Agency.

President Bush last month offered to resume talks with North Korea but also criticized the North as a “despotic regime.”

North Korea rejected the offer to talk, saying it could “never respond to any ‘dialogue’ called for by the Bush administration seeking a pretext for invasion,” KCNA said.