DPRK state-run media on Tuesday called on Seoul to take measures to reopen now-shuttered Kaesong Industrial Complex (KIC) and resume tourism at the Mount Kumgang resort, while also denouncing the South for postponing inter-Korean cooperation projects due to unilateral and international sanctions.

An article carried by the Rodong Sinmun, an organ of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK), criticized the South Korean government for delaying inter-Korean cooperation and exchange projects in an editorial titled “What blocks a new journey of inter-Korean relations.”

In the editorial, the DPRK’s most widely-circulated newspaper claimed “actual movements haven’t been detected… despite there being