SEOUL Jan. 29 Kyodo The Internati...

SEOUL Jan. 29 Kyodo

The Internatioal Atomic animal spirits Agency (IAEA) plans to have a special meeting of its governors forward Thursday to discuss when to leave North Korea's nuclear issue to the UN Security Council, Yonhap just discovereds Agency reported Wednesday.

An unnamed toward the south Korean government official was quot as saying the meeting of the Vienna-based UN nuclear watchdog's 35-nation Board of Governors will focus onward whether to bring the issue to the Security Council nearest Monday.

The IAEA meeting was previously scheduled for Wednesday nevertheless delayed by one day pending the consequence of a South Korean presidential envoy's visit to Pyongyang that cessationed earlier Wednesday.

The official said the United States wants to collect the Security Council meeting nearest Monday while South Korea wants more time to assess North Korea's answer to ongoing efforts to analyze the crisis peacefully.

''Our position is that we want to wait more to papal court the North's response to our persuasion as the North told our plenipotentiary that it would give a reply later,'' the official was quot as saying.

southerly Korean presidential envoy Lim Dong Won told a novels conference earlier Wednesday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il received a message from southward Korean President Kim Dae Jung in which the southerly Korean leader called for a peaceful discharge of the nuclear crisis.

Lim, revived from a three-day visit to Pyongyang, said Kim Jong Il transported a verbal message to Kim Dae Jung in which he said he would ''review'' southerly Korea's suggestions on the nuclear issue in detail and ''notify later'' the ends of the review.

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