South Korea and the United States will reportedly hold working-level talks next month to coordinate views on the revision of their bilateral nuclear energy accord.

Kim Kun, the head of a Foreign Ministry task force charged with handling the bilateral agreement, will attend the talks in Washington. It's anticipated the U.S. will be represented by nuclear energy experts from the State Department.

In February, a South Korean delegation led by Kim met in Washington with the U.S. State Department's special adviser for nonproliferation and arms control, Robert Einhorn, but made no headway in talks on the accord, which expires in March 2014.

Signed in 1974, the atomic energy agreement bans South Korea from reprocessing spent nuclear fuel or transporting it to other countries without the United States’ consent.

South Korea wants to gain the right to reprocess spent nuclear fuel, saying the used fuel from domestic nuclear power plants will reach a saturation point by 2016. However, the U.S. is reluctant to agree due to proliferation concerns.