Nuclear envoys from South and North Korea will hold a
working-level meeting Monday to discuss energy and economic
assistance to Pyongyang under an agreement adopted at the six-party
talks.
The two-day meeting will be held in North Korea's scenic resort
of Mount Geumgang. The South Korean delegation is led by Lim
Sung-nam, deputy chief of Seoul's delegation to the six-party talks
on the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula, the Foreign Ministry
said.
According to the Foreign Ministry, the two sides will discuss
what kind of energy assistance North Korea wants to receive and how
and by when such aid will be provided.
North Korea has received 50,000 tons of heavy fuel oil from
South Korea in return for shutting down five key nuclear facilities
earlier this year under the denuclearization agreement signed in
February at the six-party talks.
Pyongyang has agreed to disable the nuclear facilities and
declare all its nuclear programs by the end of this year.
Lim and other negotiators have said North Korea has expressed
its willingness to move ahead and complete the planned
denuclearization process even before it receives all the economic
rewards, local media said.
(Xinhua News Agency October 22, 2007)
