SEOUL. Feb 1: South Korea threatened Friday to walk out of an international agreement to build nuclear power plants for North Korea if the Communist North accepts nuclear waste from Taiwan, reports AFP.

Prime Minister Lee Soo-Sung told Journalists here that the South Korean people "would find it hard to condone the export of Taiwanese nuclear waste to North Korea."

But Taipei defended a deal between Its state-run Taiwan Power Co. (Tai power) aod Pyongyang for the disposal of over two years In the communist North, with a provision to increase the volume to 200.000

barrels.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Peter Cheng, speaking to a visiting delegation of South Korean anti-nuclear activists In Taipei, said the agreement with Pyongyang was purely a "business deal."

"There is no need to make excuses and find fault with us." he said, adding that Seoul "should send people there (North Korea) to Inspect" nuclear waste disposal facilities if they were concerned.

Meanwhile South Korea today expressed disappointment at North Korea's postponement ‘of'a'key brteftflg'On four-party . peace .talks,, which had already been rescheduled for February