South Korea will send a delegation to the International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors' meeting in Vienna next week. Vice Foreign Minister Choi Young-jin heads the delegation, reported CCTV.com Sunday.

The South Korean government hopes to persuade the UN nuclear watchdog, not to refer the country's case to the Security Council.

The Council has the power to impose sanctions, if it decides that South Korea violated international non-proliferation agreements, with nuclear experiments.

Last week, an Agency report said that some of the nuclear materials produced in the South Korean experiments, were close to weapons-grade. But it conceded that the experiments were not linked to any secret weapons development program.

(CCTV.com)