Pyongyang has asked Washington to decide...

North Korea has been pushing for talks with the United States and other nations to formally end the 1950-1953 Korean War. However, Washington has demanded Pyongyang resume six-party nuclear talks first.

"As for peace treaty talks, they can be held as six-party negotiations or separately," the North Korean diplomat said.

"It would be better if North Korea and the U.S. sat at the negotiating table to settle the issue," Kim Yong-Jae said.

He said six-party talks could be resumed "as early as tomorrow," if the United Nations Security Council drops its sanctions against Pyongyang.

The six-party talks, involving Russia, Japan, China, the United States, North and South Koreas came to a halt in April when Pyongyang pulled out of the negotiations in protest against the United Nations" condemnation of its missile tests.

The UN Security Council unanimously passed a resolution imposing further sanctions on North Korea for its new missile tests and an underground

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