North Korea rejected US proposals to resolve a protracted nuclear crisis by saying it was seeking what it called simultaneous actions to end the dispute.
"It is the life and soul to rely on the method of a package solution based on the principle of simultaneous actions in the settlement of the nuclear issue and it is the core issue upon which the DPRK and the United States should agree," North Korea's Foreign Ministry said in a statement carried by state-run KCNA news agency.
DPRK stand for the North's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.