The second round of working-level talks to discuss preparations for a reunion of separated families between South and North Korean Red Cross officials has failed to reach an agreement regarding the venue.

During the talks held in the North's border city Gaeseong on Friday, South Korea proposed holding the reunions at the inter-Korean family reunion center, a South Korean facility at the North’s Mount Geumgang resort. But the North has insisted that the reunions take place at an unspecified location inside the Mount Geumgang resort. North Korea also demanded that the South resume stalled South Korean tours to the resort on the North's east coast near the inter-Korean border.

South Korea also called for the reunions of more than 100 family members, but the North demanded to limit the number to just 100, as was the case in previous reunions. North Korea cited a lack of time and preparation to explain their demand.

The two sides agreed to meet again Friday of next week for another round of negotiations.

During the first round of talks held last week, they agreed to hold temporary reunions of familes separated by the Korean War from October 21st through the 27th.

The tours to the Mount Geumgang resort were halted in July 2008 after a South Korean tourist was shot to death by North Korean security guards. The North seized the family reunion center and other South Korean facilities in April this year, demanding Seoul promptly resume the suspended tours.

The South Korean government demanded that the North allow South Korean investigators to visit the North for thorough investigations into the incident, take measures to prevent a recurrence of similar incidents and secure the safety of South Korean tourists before Seoul could consider resuming the tours.

Seoul is also demanding Pyongyang's apology for the sinking of South Korea's Cheonan naval vessel which Seoul says was sunk by a North Korean torpedo.