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N. Korea calls for end of hostile relations with US

N. Korea calls for end o

North Korea called for an end of hostile relations with the United States in a New Year's message Friday and said it was committed to making the Korean peninsula nuclear-free through negotiations. "The fundamental task for ensuring peace and stability on the Korean peninsula and in the rest of Asia is to put an end to the hostile relationship" between North Korea and the US, the communist country said in the New Year statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency, state radio and television.