PYONGYANG, Oct. 6 (Xinhuanet) -- Multilateral talks on a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula should begin with the South Korean nuclear issue, a spokesman of the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) said Wednesday.

    The secret nuclear experiments in South Korea, which were carried out in 1982 and 2000 respectively, have made the peninsula's nuclear issue more complicated, the spokesman said.

    The spokesman said the nuclear experiments are an overt confrontation to the aim of denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula.

    The South Korean government admitted last month that scientistsof the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute made two experiments to produce small amounts of plutonium and uranium, the two main types of fissile material used in nuclear weapons.

    But Seoul claimed the two one-off experiments were conducted without the authorization and knowledge of the government and underscored they were for academic purposes only. Enditem