http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nevada/2006/oct/10/101010023.htmlOctober 10, 2006
Kerry blasts Bush NKorea policy at Boulder City campaign stop
By KATHLEEN HENNESSEY
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BOULDER CITY, Nev. (AP) - Sen. John Kerry said Tuesday that a nuclear test in North Korea is evidence of the Bush administration's "failed policies," and called for the U.S. to engage in direct talks with Pyongyang.
"The president attacks the place that has no weapons of mass destruction and does nothing about the place that does," Kerry told reporters at a campaign stop for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jack Carter. "For five years, I have been calling for the United States to engage in direct talk with North Korea. ... Instead, for five years this administration has ignored them. They fundamentally left this to other people."
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The Bush administration has been trying for years to get engage more countries in its anti-proliferation efforts, aimed at stopping nations such as North Korea from developing and selling nuclear weaponry and missiles. But it has refused one of North Korea's key demands: that the United States engage in one-on-one talks. Instead the administration pushed for a so-called six-party format, in which Russia, China, South Korea and Japan would join in the discussions.
"The six-party talks are a cover for the administration to avoid direct discussion," Kerry said........
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