Experts are also debating the cause of the earthquake, notes Taipei's Central News Agency.
The statement by the North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman was carried by the North's official Korean Central News Agency.
According to the North's official Korean Central News Agency, a delegation from the Laotian capital of Vientiane visited North Korea on May 20.
"If the U.S. ... delays the settlement of the nuclear issue, it would have a serious impact on the disablement of nuclear facilities, " an unidentified spokesman for North Korea's Foreign Ministry said in a statement carried by the Korean Central News Agency, the North Korean news agency.
It has invested billions of dollars in Confucius Institutes around the world, and in lavishly staffed and equipped news bureaus in New York and Washington operated by China Central Television and the Xinhua News Agency.
"We have pressure from our suppliers who want only cash, " Demos Strouthos, manager of a restaurant in central Nicosia, told AFP news agency.
"Unfortunately, my opinion is that they happen so often, almost on a daily basis, that they have lost their meaning, " private sector worker Dmitris Papastathis told the Associated Press news agency in central Athens.
Mrs French, who is also the headmistress of Central Newcastle High School, told the Press Association news agency the school sometimes invited business leaders and entrepreneurs in to talk to students.
"It is a gesture that provides a message of unity and repulsion, " Francisco Javier Ansuategui, the central government's Madrid representative, told Spanish news agency Europa Press at one gathering in the capital.
"There are lots of external design similarities between the iPhone and Galaxy S, such as rounded corners and large screens... but these similarities had been documented in previous products, " a judge at the Seoul Central District Court was quoted as saying by the Reuters news agency.
The raid saw the central Moscow building closed off and special forces soldiers stationed at reception, Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported.
South Korea's central bank followed the lead taken by other central banks a day earlier, slashing its key interest rate by a quarter percent, the Yonhap news agency reported.
About a quarter of workers in nine Chinese provinces surveyed by the central bank said they expected at least a 10 percent pay increase this year, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported in March.
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