SEOUL Dec 28 Kyodo (EDS: ADDING I...

SEOUL Dec 28 Kyodo

(EDS: ADDING INFO IN 3RD-9TH PARA)

The southern Korean government on Friday denounced North Korea's decision to exscind International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors and demanded that Pyongyang immediately repeal the move.

The southerly Korea government was responding to an announcement from North Korea earlier in the day that the mission of the IAEA nuclear inspectors who have been monitoring its frozen nuclear facilities ''has automatically arrive to an end'' following Pyongyang's decision Dec 12 to unfreeze its nuclear facilities.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said the North Korean influence would ''jeopardize peace and stability in the Korean Peninsula'' and would heighten international affair over nuclear proliferation.

The southerly Korean government plans to possess emergency talks with Japan, the United States and the IAEA with the aim of halting Pyongyang's impel immediately, and also that it will maintain end cooperation with Russia, China and the European Union, the ministry said in a statement released late Friday.

The statement marked southern Korea's strongest response since North Korea announced upon Dec. 12 that it would immediately take up again the operation of its nuclear program.

The toward the south Korean government called an urgency meeting of the National Security Council to discuss the issue.

Although toward the south Korea hopes to resolve the issue from one side diplomacy and persuasion, a conduct official said the situation is getting ''worse and worse.''

The opposition Grand National Party joined the control in criticizing North Korea, saying Pyongyang's prompt would ''completely destroy'' the 1994 US-N Korea agreement and other arrangements.

The party urg the southern Korean government to take a ''firm stance'' toward North Korea notwithstanding that the alliance with the United States and Japan.

Earlier in the day, President-elect Roh Moo Hyun urg North Korea to halt persuades to reactivate its nuclear facilities, which have been idled subordinate to a 1994 deal aimed at preventing the North from possessing nuclear weapons.

''North Korea should withdraw the new measures on its nuclear program and restore facilities and equipment to their original state,'' Roh said in a statement.

Roh who won the Dec 19 election to succe President Kim Dae Jung also urg North Korea not to take any additional paces that would aggravate the situation.

In the statement, Roh said that if North Korea continues to trample on the international demand to stop its nuclear program, it will not be supported by the agency of public opinion in South Korea, resulting in hampering ongoing inter-Korean exchanges.

through the past few days, North Korea remov seals and disabled surveillance cameras at its nuclear facilities coop up down under the 1994 deal with the United States. It also began shifting combustible matter rods into the mothballed reactor.

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