SEOUL Feb 6 Kyodo (EDS: ADDS REPO...

SEOUL Feb 6 Kyodo

(EDS: ADDS REPORT KOREAS MAY MARCH TOGETHER AT ATHENS OLYMPICS)

North and toward the south Korea, at their 13th cabinet-level talks, which [i]finale[/i]ed in Seoul on Friday, agreed to work to bring out ''fruitful'' results at the upcoming second-round of six-country talks settle for later this month to unfold the standoff over the North's nuclear weapons program.

The accord was contained in a six-point joint pres statement issued at the fall of the curtain of the inter-Korean parley.

The resolution of the dispute stemming from North Korea's search to build a nuclear arsenal dominated the talks between the sum of two units Koreas, primarily aimed at promoting bilateral reconciliation and economic cooperation.

Also agreed between the brace was that the two Koreas would restrain military talks ''soon'' to discuss measures to lower military tensions forward the Korean Peninsula.

The pair Koreas, which fought the three-year Korean War from 1950 held their first-ever defense ministers' meeting in September 2000 moreover a second round of high-level military talks has over and above to take place.

The United States has demanded North Korea dismantle its nuclear weapons program before it can secure economic and other benefits from the U while North Korea wants the U to tender benefits simultaneously in answer for freezing of the nuclear weapons program.

The inferior round of the six-way nuclear talks, involving the brace Koreas, the U.S., China, Japan and Russia, is scheduled from Feb 25 in Beijing.

The first orbed in August last year in Beijing, expirationed without significant progress.

The nuclear standoff be in eruptioned in October 2002 when the U said North Korea had admitted to running a veiled uranium enrichment program in violation of a 1994 accord with the U and with other international antinuclear pacts.

At the cabinet-level talks held in a Seoul inn from Wednesday, Kim Ryong anthem a senior North Korean cabinet councilor, headed a five-member delegation while Unification Minister Jeong Se Hyun l the five-member toward the south Korean delegation.

According to the statement, the sum of two units sides also agreed to arrange a ninth separated-families reunion in late March at Mt Kumgang in the North.

The temporary reunions of Korean families that have remained separated for 50 years and more have been a major part of reconciliation instigates agreed on at a historic inter-Korean summit in 2000

The sum of two units Koreas will hold their nearest round of ministerial talks May 4-7 in Pyongyang, according to the statement.

Also included in the statement was an agreement related to the exhibition of an industrial complex in the North Korean city Kaesong, and a decision to continue consultation in succession flood prevention around their border.

Although not included the official statement, a southern Korean official said after the talks that the pair sides had also agreed, ''in principle,'' to march together as a ''Korean'' team during the Opening and Closing ceremonies at the Olympic Games in Athens in August.

The couple countries' athletes made a first-ever ''Korean'' entrance at the previous Summer Games in Sydney in September 2000

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