The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) said on Friday that the six-party talks on the nuclear issue of the Korean Peninsula could be resumed right now if the United states changes its hostile policy toward the country.

"A prospect of settling the nuclear issue entirely depends on the US switchover in its hostile policy toward the DPRK," said a spokesman for the DPRK's Foreign Ministry.

"It is the consistent stand of the DPRK government to seek a solution to the complicated and sensitive nuclear issue through bilateral negotiations and this stand still remains unchanged," the spokesman said.

"But if the US administration does not make such a switchover it can never expect any change in the DPRK's stand toward the issue."

The spokesman said the Bush administration did not come out to the six-party talks with a willingness to solve the issue from theoutset.

"They used the talks as a leverage to force the DPRK to stand trial over the nuclear issue, bring collective pressure upon it tobring it to its knees and secure a pretext to attack it by force just as it invaded Iraq."

The spokesman said the DPRK does not care who becomes president in the United States and its only concern is what kind of Korea policy the future administration would carry out.