The Rodong Sinmun, an organ of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK), on Thursday called on the Moon Jae-in government to “give up” conditions for inter-Korean dialogue as, it claimed, they are unlikely to be met.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in has repeatedly stated his government’s position that dialogue between the South and the North can begin only when Pyongyang ceases “nuclear testing and missile provocations.”

The North argued that Moon had “made imprudent remarks” about the requirements for talks “every time there is an opportunity,” in a commentary calling on the South to “give up presumptuous talk about ‘the conditions for