North Korean officials accompanying leader Kim Jong Un in Beijing reacted coldly to a South Korean delegation’s attempts to engage them during China’s large-scale military parade on Wednesday, according to an ROK lawmaker.

Kim Joon-hyung of the progressive Rebuilding Korea Party said that lawmakers who traveled to Beijing for the event attempted to talk to members of the DPRK delegation.

“Even when we tried to approach them, there was a general atmosphere of avoidance,” Kim said during an interview with local media. 

In another radio interview, the lawmaker said the South Korean side tried to make contact by pretending