US shrugs off NKorea criticism over nuclear issue

The United States on Monday shrugged off criticism from North Korea and maintained that it should adopt measures to verify its nuclear program before being delisted from Washington's terrorism blacklist."What we require right now is that verification package from North Korea before we can go forward with the delisting," State Department spokesman Robert Wood said. He was reacting to criticism from North Korea Monday that Washington was not honoring a six-nation denuclearization deal.