Pyongyang refused to attend Six-Party Talks scheduled for September 2004, pointing to increased U.S. spy plane over-flights as evidence of Bush’s hostile intent. Further proof justifying its decision came in October when Bush signed the North Korean Human Rights Act, which banned economic aid to North Korea unless it made progress on human rights. The bill also allocated $4 million for radio broadcasts into the DPRK promoting democracy and $20 million annually until 2008 to fund grants to private groups for programs fostering human rights and the development of a market economy in North Korea. Despite claims to the contrary, the DPRK hoped that the U.S. presidential election would bring regime change in the United States. Bush’s reelection brought word from North Korea that it would be “quite possible” to resolve the crisis if the United States moderated its policy. On 14 January 2005, Pyongyang announced that it not only would return to the Six-Party Talks, but “respect and treat [the United States] as a friend unless [it] slanders the [DPRK’s] system and interferes in its internal affairs.” Six days later, Bush in his inaugural speech dedicated his second term to the achievement of “the great objective of ending tyranny” around the globe. Condoleezza Rice, in her confirmation hearings to replace Powell as secretary of state, included North Korea in a list of six “outposts of tyranny.” When North Korea publicly announced on 10 February that it had nuclear weapons, it was reacting to this latest provocative U.S. rhetoric. Washington immediately condemned North Korea for undermining the NPT and also rejected Pyongyang’s proposal for bilateral negotiations to fashion a settlement. In response, a DPRK diplomat announced termination of the multinational negotiations: “Six-party talks is old story. No more.”86