The spokesman said that since the president's first inauguration, North Korea has shown the "utmost magnanimity and patience," but that Bush "is a half-baked man in terms of morality and a philistine whom we can never deal with."

Last June, Pyongyang said it wanted to return to the Agreed Framework negotiated by the Clinton administration, which gave North Korea two plutonium-producing light water nuclear reactors and turned the country into the largest recipient of U.S. foreign aid in the Asia-Pacific region.

In exchange for a return to the 1994 deal, Pyongyang said it would make the plutonium it had produced in violation of the Agreed Framework available for inspection and promised not to give it to terrorists.

Experts say North Korea has produced enough plutonium to make at least five nuclear bombs.

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