North Korea will only engage in talks with the South when Seoul ends its “confrontation lunacy”, an article in North Korea’s state-run outlet Uriminzokkiri said on Friday. 

North Korea has so far remained unresponsive to proposals by Seoul in July for talks on easing military tensions and reunions of separated families – talks that, Seoul hoped, would take place on July 21 and August 1 respectively.

Pyongyang, however, said Seoul was engaged in aggression against Pyongyang in its conducting of joint military drills with the U.S.

“The loss of the driving forces of a dialogue or not depends on the