TOKYO, JAN 13: The United States is not planning a pre-emptive attack on North Korea despite suspicions that an underground site may be nuclear related, US Defence Secretary William Cohen said today.``We are not contemplating attacking North Korea. What we are contemplating is to see to it that the integrity of the agreed framework is maintained,'' Cohen told a group of Japanese media persons here.Cohen's remarks, which followed security talks with Japanese leaders, appeared intended to dispel rising speculation that any collapse of the agreed framework could lead to a military confrontation on the Korean peninsula.There was no Washington-imposed deadline for resolving the issue over whether the site at Kumchangri, North Korea, was being built to circumvent the 1994 agreed framework, which froze Pyongyang's nuclear programme, Cohen stressed.
