High-level talks between North and South Korea are unlikely to happen as planned if South Korea continues to “taint the atmosphere of dialogue” with false accusations, North Korea warned through state media on Tuesday.

Although the North still has made no official response to Seoul’s proposal of talks next Thursday, it has made numerous implications of thwarting dialogue plans altogether, claiming that South Korea has created a “hostile environment” through its “unguarded treatment” of relations.

“How is it possible to open the second round of high-level contact in such a threatening environment like now,” an editorial in the Korean Central