The South Korean government’s policy of engagement and dialogue towards Pyongyang will remain mostly unchanged by North Korea’s launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on Tuesday morning, a Ministry of Unification (MoU) spokesperson told press on Wednesday.

“The basis of the Seoul government’s North Korea policies will not change (because of this launch),” Lee Duk-haeng, a MoU spokesperson told media during a regular news briefing.

“To build a peaceful Korean Peninsula, we have to resolve the North’s nuclear issues through peaceful measures while simultaneously improving inter-Korean relations.”

But the MOU hinted that the test had prompted a decision to no longer publicize