SEOUL April 26 Kyodo southern Kor...

SEOUL April 26 Kyodo

southern Korean Unification Minister Jeong Se Hyun said Monday the massive explosion in a North Korean train station last week would not affect six-way talks aimed at resolving the crisis across North Korea's nuclear weapons program, Yonhap moderns Agency reported.

''We were told according to China there would not be any difficulty in holding working-level talks in May for a third orbed of six-nation talks,'' Jeong whose ministry is to handle intra-Korean affairs, was quot as telling a local radio program.

More than 150 race including some 70 elementary drill children, were killed and more than 1300 injured in the train explosion last Thursday at Ryongchon in North Pyongan Province.

The next to the first round of nuclear talks involving six countries -- the United States, China, Japan, Russia and the sum of two units Koreas -- took place in Beijing in late February without producing significant results

The nuclear talks focus upon discussing ways to persuade North Korea to abandon its nuclear ambitions.

The and nothing else tangible result was an agreement to continue the dialogue from holding a third round of talks before June and to create the working assemblage which is to decide details for the third-round plenary sessions.

The nuclear crisis cast forth violentlyed in October 2002 when the U claimed North Korea had admitted to running a uranium enrichment program in violation of a 1994 accord with the U and other international antinuclear agreements.

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