The U.S.-led United Nations Command (UNC) and North Korea will hold another round of colonel-level talks Wednesday after making little progress in a series of meetings during the past three months, a military source said.
Since July, the two sides have met six times to discuss the March sinking of a South Korean warship blamed on the North and discuss the date and agenda for general-level talks.
But the meetings failed to produce progress as North Korea has repeated its denial of responsibility for the sinking and renewed calls to send its own team of inspectors to the South to review the results of a multinational investigation that accused Pyongyang.
The UNC has demanded that a task force be set up to jointly assess whether the sinking violated the armistice agreement that ended the 1950-53 Korean War.
"Both sides are expected to repeat their positions in this week's talks," the source said on condition of anonymity.
The meeting will be held at the border village of Panmunjom, he said.
The UNC, which monitors the Korean War armistice, is led by the top U.S. commander in the South. The U.S. has some 28,500 troops stationed in South Korea.