WASHINGTON - North Korea wants to negotiate with the United States over the North's newly disclosed nuclear weapons program and is open to meeting the Bush administration's demand that it shut down its previously secret uranium-enrichment facilities, according to a series of statements issued by the North Korean Mission to the United Nations.

North Korea acknowledged last month that the uranium facilities are part of a secret program to build nuclear weapons in violation of a 1994 agreement with the United States. But it now says that "everything will be negotiable," including the dismantling of the enrichment program. The 1994 accord provided for energy aid and other assistance to the North.

In the statements released over the past week through its U.N. mission, North Korea also said it was open to discussion of international inspections of the uranium facilities.

The State Department said it had no official response to the North Korea statements, which were made in an interview with a senior North Korean diplomat and subsequent written statements to The New York Times, contacts that the North Korean Mission at the United Nations initiated.

But administration officials said they doubted that the United States would waver in its refusal to resume negotiations until North Korea first dismantles the enrichment laboratories.

The United States is pressing its allies to isolate North Korea, using the North's desperate economic needs to force it to comply with the American demands. In a speech Friday, Undersecretary of State John R. Bolton ruled out talks with North Korea until it "completely and verifiably" ends the nuclear weapons program. He said it is "hard to see how we can have conversations with a government that has blatantly violated its agreements."

In their statements over the past week, the North Koreans said they were equally firm that they would not consider dismantling the uranium facilities until after the United States had reopened talks.

"Everything will be negotiable," the North Korean government said in one of the statements issued through Ambassador Han Song Ryol of the North Korean Mission at the United Nations, the country's sole diplomatic post in the United States. "Our government will resolve all U.S. security concerns through the talks, if your government has a will to end its hostile policy."