The former chief of the United Nations arms inspector Hans Blix Tuesday asked the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to back to the six-party talks in an effort to end the nuclear crisis in the Korean Peninsula.

The UN former chief arms inspector made the statement after meeting with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at the State Palace.

"It is very urgent that they get back to the talk in Beijing," he told reporters.

The former inspector said that he expected the upcoming President Susilo's plan to visit the DPRK may cool tension, as the president has a mediating influence.

"I think its very hopeful that your president is going to DPRK, and he may well have a mediating influence," said Blix.

Earlier this year, South Korea asked Indonesia to host defense ministries' talks of the two Koreas to reduce tensions after the DPRK refused to return to the six-party talks.

Reports of an imminent DPRK missile test recently has drawn warnings from the United States, Japan and South Korea.

The six-party talks includes the United States, DPRK, South Korea, Japan, Russia and China.

In March 2005, Pyongyang stopped a moratorium on long-range missile that it had declared in 1999. The country shocked the world in 1998 by launching a Taepodong-1 missile that flew over Japan before crashing into the Pacific.

Last year, the DPRK said it had nuclear weapons and since November has boycotted the six-party talks on its atomic aspirations, saying it will not come back to the bargaining table until the United States revoke sanctions against it.

Source: Xinhua