The construction of a nuclear power project in the DPRK will remain suspended for another year, China Radio International reported Saturday.

The New York-based Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization said in a statement that the freeze will be extended until December next year.

The consortium said it will continue to do maintenance work on the site until the future of the project is decided next year.

The light water reactor project in DPRK, was the product of a 1994 agreement to meet the country's energy needs in exchange for Pyongyang's promise to freeze its nuclear weapons programs.

In 2002 the United States said that North Korea's admission of work on a secret uranium enrichment project nullified the 1994 agreement and it called for a halt on work on the two reactors.

By the end of last year, the KEDO formally decided to freeze the light water reactor project for one year when the project was only completed 34 percent or so.

Source: CRI