2 Koreas Schedule Third Round of Talks : Asia: The prime ministers of north and south trade charges but will meet again in December.

South Korean officials visiting Pyongyang reported today that they hope to combine contrasting North and South Korean proposals for reconciliation and said a third round of talks between prime ministers will be held Dec. 11-14 in Seoul.

In a pool report to Seoul that added an upbeat tone to Wednesday’s charges and countercharges, South Korean journalists accompanying Kang Young Hoon on the first trip to the North Korean capital by a South Korean prime minister reported that Seoul officials today plan to issue a joint declaration at the end of the talks Friday.

The statement would include the south’s proposals for exchanges to build up trust and a nonaggression declaration advocated by the north, the unnamed officials were quoted as saying.

In a closed negotiating session this morning, “Both sides agreed upon the necessity to continue the high-level talks,” the pool report said.

In an open bargaining session Wednesday, Prime Minister Yon Hyong Muk of North Korea lashed out at the presence of 43,000 U.S. troops in South Korea, at their nuclear weapons and at the military exercises they conduct with the South Korean armed forces.

But South Korean officials noted today that Yon refrained from making any objections to the American troops in his proposal for a nonaggression declaration.

“Unless (the north) attaches any special conditions, we will try to reach an agreement on a joint declaration,” the report quoted South Korean officials as saying.

Yon on Wednesday appeared to reject the only new proposal made by Kang, who in a banquet speech Tuesday night appealed to the north to allow elderly Koreans to visit relatives across the border.

Yon replied: “If political and military confrontation remains, even visits to native towns by persons over 60 . . . will not eliminate mistrust.”

Instead, he read out the text of a proposed nonaggression pact and asked the south to sign it.

Kang called for agreements that would permit travel, mail, telephone communications and trade for the first time since Korea was partitioned after World War II more than four decades ago.

The North Korean said the two sides appeared to be in agreement on a nonaggression declaration and that there seemed to be a common willingness to discuss political and military issues simultaneously. But he emphasized points at issue.

“Your idea of a system of peaceful coexistence is nothing but a division-oriented approach that lacks a desire for unification,” he said. “Without solving this problem, there can be no progress in these high-level meetings.”

He told Kang that Seoul’s refusal to free three dissidents jailed for visiting Pyongyang last year without permission--even as Kang himself was visiting North Korea--has caused ill feelings in the north.

Kang retorted that this demand “has no place on our agenda” and added, “If you continue to attempt to interfere in our internal affairs by insisting on the release of convicted prisoners for ‘unification’s sake,’ we will have a lot to say about your internal system.”

He accused North Korea of clinging to a “Cold War attitude of regarding (the south) as an enemy” and warned that the talks could make no progress unless the north stops trying to foment revolution in the south.

Kang told South Korean reporters traveling with him that he was miffed at Yon’s refusal to address him as “prime minister.” As in the first round of talks, Sept. 4-7 in Seoul, the North Korean has addressed Kang as “chief delegate.”

Kang said he takes this to mean that North Korea still refuses to recognize the South Korean government. He said he retaliated on one occasion by addressing Yon as “chief delegate.”