Seoul - North Korea was scheduled to hold talks Friday with South Korea on outstanding oil shipments and economic aid promised to it for dismantling its nuclear programme.

The one-day meeting is to take place in Panmunjom, a village in the demilitarized zone that separates the two Koreas, the Foreign Ministry in Seoul said Thursday.

The aid was promised as part of six-nation talks aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear programme. The talks involving the two Koreas, the United States, China, Japan and Russia have stalled over differences about verifying North Korea's compliance with its promised to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula.

The dispute led North Korea to begin reassembling its main nuclear facility, South Korea said early this month. North Korea had been nearly finished with the process of disabling the complex at Yongybyon, about 100 kilometres north of Pyongyang.

That step is the second it pledged to make in its denuclearization.

"The main agenda of the meeting [Friday] will be implementing the second-phase actions for denuclearization, including the provision of energy to the DPRK," the South Korean Foreign Ministry said, referring to North Korea by the acronym of its official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. (dpa)