The White House said Tuesday that it has no plans to change course on North Korea and will pursue multilateral efforts to get Pyongyang to dismantle its nuclear weapons program."Our policy on North Korea remains the same, and we are pursuing a peaceful, diplomatic solution through a multilateral forum," said Scott McClellan, chief spokesman for US President George W. Bush.
"Some progress was made" during six-way talks last week in Beijing, where Washington's partners "made it very clear" that they support a de-nuclearized Korean peninsula, he told reporters.
"North Korea knows what they need to do. They need to end their pursuit of nuclear weapons, end its nuclear weapons program in a verifiable and irreversible way," said McClellan.
Asked whether the Bush administration was reviewing its policy or was considering changing course, the spokesman replied: "No, we're continuing to work this through the multilateral approach."
Those comments came after China said the next round of six-nation talks on the North Korean nuclear issue should be centered on clarifying "the negative policy" of the United States toward the Stalinist state.
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