The US regarded the sovereignty of North Korea as a fact and it has no intention to dispatch troops or attack it, Christopher Hill, head of the US delegation and US assistant secretary of state, said on Tuesday.??

Noting that the six-party talks are at a crucial moment, Hill said there may exist many different options to resolve the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue, but the best choice is to conduct negotiation through the six-party talks.

 

Avoiding problems is not a solution, he said at the opening ceremony of the fourth round of the six-party talks on the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue.

 

Hill said the US has always hoped that the six-party talks could be resumed as early as possible since the third round of the talks in June last year.

 

In the past year when the six-party talks were suspended, the US side had one-on-one contact with North Korea for six times under the framework of the six-party talks, he said.

 

During the contacts, the US side had made clear its key stance and opinions to North Korea, and the US is ready for "serious" talks under the same framework, he added.

 

(Xinhua News Agency July 26, 2005)