Originally posted by the Voice of America. Voice of America content is produced by the Voice of America, a United States federal government-sponsored entity, and is in the public domain. North Korea Postpones Talks with UN Command on Sunken Warship VOA News 12 July 2010 In this April 24, 2010 file photo, a giant offshore crane salvages the bow section of the South Korean naval ship Cheonan Photo: AP In this April 24, 2010 file photo, a giant offshore crane salvages the bow section of the South Korean naval ship Cheonan The U.S.-led United Nations command says its planned meeting with North Korea's military officers to discuss the sinking of a South Korean warship in March has been postponed at Pyongyang's request. In a statement Tuesday, the U.N. command said the North cited administrative reasons for the delay.  The meeting between North Korean and U.N. colonels was to take place Tuesday at the border village of Panmunjom and was intended to pave the way for higher-level talks involving generals. The talks would have been the first since the sinking of the Cheonan, which killed 46 South Korean sailors. International investigators have accused North Korea of torpedoing the warship, a charge Pyongyang denies. South Korea has demanded that the North apologize for the sinking. The U.N. Command has conducted its own investigation and wants North Korea to account for possible violations of the 1953 truce that ended the Korean War. The U.N. Security Council condemned the sinking of the Cheonan in a statement Friday but did not directly blame it on North Korea. Pyongyang praised the statement as a "great diplomatic victory." Last month, North Korea rejected the U.N. Command's request for talks on the Cheonan incident. But Pyongyang later changed its stance, because South Korea refused its call for direct inter-Korean talks on the issue. Some information for this report was provided by AP and AFP. .