The ROK’s Ministry of Unification (MOU) on Wednesday expressed its regret over the DPRK’s unilateral cancellation of a planned high-level inter-Korean meeting and urged Pyongyang to resume meetings “immediately.”

North Korea on Wednesday notified the South Korean government of its decision to cancel the meeting at 0030 local time, citing the ongoing annual and bilateral training exercise Max Thunder between the U.S. and the ROK.

“It is regrettable that North Korea unilaterally postponed the South-North high-level meeting citing the annual joint ROK-U.S. air exercises as it does not correspond to the fundamental spirit and the purpose of the Panmunjom Declaration…,” MOU