Seoul’s push for renewed inter-Korean dialogue will not be affected by North Korea’s Tuesday ICBM launch, South Korean President Moon Jae-in said in a speech in Germany on Thursday.

Seoul is still willing to engage in talks with Pyongyang, he reiterated, but only if Pyongyang expresses an interest in building a “permanent peace system” on the Korean Peninsula.

“Pyongyang’s decision, which was made two days ago, to provoke us with a missile test was a deeply disappointing and a very wrong one,” Moon said during the speech at an event hosted by Germany’s Körber Foundation.

“But I would