"Charles (Jack) Pritchard, the former special envoy for negotiations with North Korea, who resigned from the State Department last month, said the US must drop its opposition to one-on-one talks with North Korea and begin a "serious and sustained dialogue" to try to defuse the crisis.
Mr Pritchard embarrassed the Bush Administration by resigning on the eve of the six-way talks on the Korean crisis in Beijing in late August.
During the Washington forum on North Korea, a former US ambassador to the United Nations, Richard Holbrooke, played down any prospect of a US military strike on the North if talks fail.
The US military would not support a "surgical" strike on Pyongyang's nuclear facilities because it did not have the forces for a counter-attack if the North responded militarily, he said.
"Seventy-three per cent of all American manoeuvre battalions are now deployed in Iraq or Afghanistan," he said. The US military would be "violently opposed" to any military action on the peninsula."
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