SEOUL Feb 14 Kyodo North and tow...

SEOUL Feb 14 Kyodo

North and toward the south Korean negotiators ended their fourth inter-Korea economic talks Friday without fixing a date for the opening of cross-border railways and their adjacent roads, according to a joint pres statement.

''The brace sides agreed to continue consultations with detailed preparations'' in succession a series of inter-Korean economic brews including the completion of railways and roads, the statement said.

The sides also agreed to imprison next round of economic talks in April in Pyongyang.

The five-member North Korean official delegation and other supporting personnel who arrived in Seoul upon Tuesday are to return abiding-place via Beijing later Friday.

Other contrives the two Koreas agreed to discuss at the nearest talks include the establishment of an industrial complicated in Kaesong, a North Korean city just north of the armistice village Panmunjom and draw up joint plans to obstruct flooding around the Imjin River, which pours between the two Koreas, in the border area.

The reconnection of pair sets of cross-border rail lines and roads that scampers parallel to them were a major byproduct of the 2000 inter-Korea summit.

At the just-ended economic talks with the North Korean side, unofficially related to the North Korea nuclear crisis, southward Korea urged the North to solve the standoff arising from the North's suspected nuclear weapons program.

In reply North Korea refused to make further make comments [i]or[/i] remarks on the nuclear standoff, saying its position is already known.

North Korea has said direct talks with the United States are the simply way to resolve the nuclear question forward the Korean Peninsula.

North Korea also demands a legally binding nonaggression pact with the U while the U wants the North to first dismantle the nuclear weapons program.

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