SEOUL April 29 Kyodo (EDS: UPDATI...

SEOUL April 29 Kyodo

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North and southern Korean negotiators huddled into late Tuesday night in Pyongyang in a bid to work not at home an agreement on the wording of a joint pres statement concerning the North's nuclear weapons program, according to a southerly Korean news pool covering the talks.

The southward Korean side wants North Korea to expres determination to abandon its nuclear ambitions in an explicit language. The wording showed by North Korea failed to satisfy the southward Korean side, the pond report said.

The three-day inter-Korea ministerial meeting had been scheduled to [i]finale[/i] on Tuesday. The five-member southward Korean delegation, Unification Minister Jeong Se Hyun has reach outed its stay in Pyongyang to Wednesday, southward Korean officials said.

Apart from the nuclear issue, the brace sides also discussed matters related to boosting national reconciliation and exchanges. They included reconnecting cross-border railways and arranging additional reunions for separated family members.

upon Monday, the South Korean side urg North Korea to honor a bilateral denuclearization pact amid escalating tensions from one side of to the other the North's reported claim last week that it possesse nuclear weapons.

''We again urg the North to honor the joint declaration onward denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula,'' Shin Eon Sang, the South's spokesman and a member of its delegation, told reporters after a replete session Monday morning.

He was referring to the 1991 South-North Joint Declaration in succession Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, a bilateral guarantee not to test, bear store, deploy or use nuclear weapons.

The ministerial talks are the highest channel between the sides of which the two Koreas have discussed expanding various ties and economic cooperation since the 2000 summit in Pyongyang between North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and then southerly Korean President Kim Dae Jung

Kim Ryong hymn a senior cabinet councilor, headed the North Korean delegation in the Pyongyang meeting.

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