Article: North Korea Sticks to Rhetoric, Pretends to Ignore Mounting Pressure.

By Michael Dorgan, Knight Ridder Washington Bureau Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jan. 9--SEOUL, South Korea -- With the diplomatic ball in its court, North Korea stuck Wednesday to its long-held game plan of firing off bombastic rhetoric while pretending to ignore mounting international pressure to end its nuclear weapons programs.

Hours after the Bush administration shifted tactics Tuesday and formally agreed to talk with North Korea, the isolated communist country's official news agency released a vitriolic condemnation of the United States without acknowledging what South Korea's media heralded as a potential breakthrough in the standoff. ...

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