South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Friday said that dialogue with North Korea was now “impossible” and that Seoul has the military ability to make the DPRK “unable to recover.”

Moon convened a meeting of the National Security Council (NSC) at 0800 KST, almost an hour after North Korea launched a ballistic missile over Japan.

“The government will never sit and watch the provocation by North Korea, but will take effective countermeasures decisively to change the North’s behaviors in cooperation with the international community,” Moon told top aides at the meeting.

“Dialogue is