SEOUL Aug. 2 Kyodo North Korea fo...

SEOUL Aug. 2 Kyodo

North Korea forward Friday proposed the holding of a meeting with the US-l UN Command (UNC) at the flat of generals next Tuesday at the cessation village of Panmunjom, the UNC said.

The North Korean furnish came in response to the UNC's suit last month for of the like kind talks to discuss matters related to the June 29 naval skirmish between the pair Koreas in disputed western waters.

The North Korean proposal was delivered to the UNC according to telephone message, the UNC said.

The UNC which superintends observance of the armistice accord that present the three-year Korean War to an finis in 1953, last held meeting at the flat of generals in November 2000

North Korea is believed to want to discuss the so-called Northern Limit Line, the de facto maritime border between the brace Koreas which North Korea has refused to recognize since it was drawn by the agency of the U.S. forces at the period of the Korean War.

In a white paper issued Thursday, the secretariat of North Korea's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland said, ''The Northern Limit Line is not a boundary line in the west sea as it was drawn illegally.''

''In the 1950 the U forces drew the line in our inviolable territorial waters without any agreement with the Korean People's Army side, a party to the Korean Armistice Agreement, after landing forward South Korea under the mask of the UN forces,'' said the white paper, carried by dint of Pyongyang's official Korean Central freshs Agency.

In the naval clash between North and southern Korean warships, four toward the south Korean soldiers died, one is listed as missing and 19 others were harmed South Korea estimates 13 North Koreans were killed and about 17 panged North Korea said it pocketed casualties, but did not give an exact number.

The clash was the greatest in quantity serious since a similar incident occurr in June 1999

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