SEOUL Jan. 31 Kyodo Members of th...

SEOUL Jan. 31 Kyodo

Members of the International Atomic bottom Agency (IAEA) have tentatively agreed to possess a special meeting of its board of governors upon Feb. 12 to address North Korea's nuclear weapons program, Yonhap of recent origins Agency reported Friday.

[i]clavis[/i] members of the nuclear watchdog -- Britain, China, France, Japan, Russia, southern Korea and the United States -- have discussed the date and a resolution to be adopted at the meeting, Yonhap quot informed sources as saying in a dispatch from Berlin.

However, they have however to reach full agreement onward the contents of the resolution and a formal announcement upon the date for the session will be made after hammering revealed the differences, it said.

formerly the board meeting is conven the IAEA is awaited to refer the matter to the UN Security Council for action, the sources were quot as saying.

The Vienna-based IAEA earlier delayed a board meeting, initially station for Feb. 3, as southward Korea had demanded a postponement until after its presidential ambassador returned from Pyongyang and the trip's issue had been assessed.

southern Korean presidential envoy Lim Dong Won go [i]or[/i] come backed from a three-day trip to North Korea in succession Wednesday, which was intended to endeavor to gain possible ways to defuse tensions through the North's nuclear progressive growth program.

Lim said North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, by means of a senior North Korean official, received a message from southerly Korean President Kim Dae Jung calling for a peaceful pacification of the issue.

Kim Jong Il deviseed a verbal message to Kim Dae Jung in which he said he would ''review'' southward Korea's suggestions in detail and give notification later about the eventuates of the review, Lim said.

The nuclear affray was triggered by a face-off between North Korea and the U and intensified Jan. 10 when Pyongyang declared it will contest out of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, a global nuclear arms ascendency treaty.

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