Indonesia"s presidential envoy arrived in Seoul on Tuesday after finishing a four-day trip to North Korea amid growing concerns over the lack of progress in the six-party denuclearization talks, which have been in limbo since November.

In Pyongyang, Nana Sutrena, the Indonesian official, met with the North"s high-ranking officials, including Foreign Minister Paek Nam-sun and Kim Yong-nam, Pyongyang"s second-most senior leader.

But the North did not give any ``indication"" on whether it will return to the six-party talks, the Indonesian envoy told reporters at the Incheon International Airport.

Sutrena said he did not meet Kim Jong-il, the leader of the communist state.

He declined to answer questions on the North"s alleged counterfeiting of U.S. dollars, which led Washington in September to impose financial restrictions on Pyongyang.

North Korea declared in November that it will not come back to the six-party talks unless the United States lifts the ``financial sanctions.""

The special envoy to Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was scheduled to brief South Korean officials on the results of his visit to North Korea before returning home on Saturday.

He plans to meet Defense Minister Yoon Kwang-ung and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday. The Indonesian envoy plans to meet Song Min-soon, chief secretary to the president for unification, foreign and security policy, on Thursday.

Sutrena hinted in Jakarta on Friday that his trip was to arrange a meeting of the two Koreas" defense ministers in Indonesia.

Indonesia"s Defense Minister Juwono Sudarsono said last month that Jakarta had been asked by South Korea to help defuse tensions on the Korean Peninsula by organizing inter-Korean military talks.

Sutrena"s trip coincided with the two Koreas" agreement last week on the resumption of the general-level military talks in late February at the earliest at the inter-Korean border village of Panmunjom.

The talks have been in hiatus for the past two years.

Indonesia has long-standing ties with North Korea dating from the era of Indonesia"s first president Sukarno, who developed a special personal friendship with the North"s late founding leader, Kim Il-sung, father of Kim Jong-il.

im@koreatimes.co.kr