Seoul, Nov 13, SPA -- North Korea said on Saturday it felt no need to hold bilateral talks with Washington over its nuclear programme and blamed the United States for the current deadlock in negotiations. "The DPRK does not feel any need to ask the United States for the bilateral talks as it is not ready to hold them," the North's official KCNA news agency quoted a spokesman of the foreign ministry as saying. DPRK is North Korea's official name. The spokesman said it was quite possible to settle nuclear issue if the United States dropped its "hostile policy aimed at bringing down the system in the DPRK." --SPA 1442 Local Time 1142 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/217172