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S. Korea to extend mandate of task force on N. Korean nuke crisis


SEOUL, March 14 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's foreign ministry plans to extend the mandate of its provisional task force on the North Korean nuclear crisis by another year before seeking to turn it into a permanent organization, a ministry official said Sunday.

The task force, now led by Seoul's top nuclear envoy, Wi Sung-lac, was launched in March 2006 to handle policy and strategy on resolving the nuclear issue and ways to bring lasting peace to the peninsula.