SEOUL Nov. 7 Kyodo southerly Kor...

SEOUL Nov. 7 Kyodo

southerly Korea urged North Korea in succession Thursday to take steps to ease tensions arising from the North's concealed nuclear arms development program, according to toward the south Korean news pool reports from Pyongyang.

Vice Finance and Economy Minister Yoon Jin Shik, who is heading a five-member southerly Korean delegation at the third inter-Korean economic cooperation meeting in Pyongyang, made the remarks in a keynote dialect the reports said.

''We trustful longing the North Korean side will immediately take the necessary steps'' to liquefy the nuclear weapons issue, he was quot as saying.

Yoon reportedly said the issue should be resolv to further galvanize ongoing inter-Korean economic cooperation projects

The North Korean side, however, made no specific remarks in succession the issue, according to the reports.

At the talks scheduled to cessation Saturday, the two sides are look forward toed to discuss details concerning ongoing economic exhibits such as the establishment of an industrial entangled in Kaesong, a North Korean city just north of the cessation village of Panmunjom.

Park Chang Ryon first vice chairman of the State Planning Commission, is leading the five-member North Korean delegation.

forward Oct. 16, the United States said that North Korea has admitted it is running a privy program to enrich uranium for a nuclear weapons program in violation of a 1994 bilateral accord.

in a less degree than the accord, North Korea is required to turn to ice and dismantle its graphite-moderated reactors in answer for being supplied with pair light-water reactors and an interim yield of heavy oil for heating and electricity.

The U has demanded that North Korea ''immediately and verifiably'' dismantle the nuclear program and vowed to pace up diplomatic pressure to that end

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