Asia-Pacific foreign ministers told North Korea on Monday it is high time that it stop taking actions posing threats to regional peace.But North Korea's foreign minister, who attended an annual security meeting in Manila with them, staunchly defended his country's nuclear and missile programs as legitimate and self-defensive in nature."We will, under no circumstances, put the nuclear and ballistic missiles on the negotiating table...unless the hostile policy and the nuclear threat of the United States against (the North) are fundamentally eliminated," a spokesman for Ri Yong Ho quoted him a…READ FULL ARTICLE
