No director-level meetings have been held at an inter-Korean liaison office at Kaesong for almost two months, South Korea’s Ministry of Unification (MOU) confirmed on Friday, in a further sign of a deepening diplomatic impasse between Seoul and Pyongyang in the aftermath of February’s failed U.S.-DPRK summit in Hanoi.

Seoul and Pyongyang previously agreed to hold weekly meetings between their respective directors of the round-the-clock liaison office, though talks have not been held since February 22.

The South Korean government was on Thursday informed that the North Korean director Jon Jong Su would not attend today’s planned meeting, MOU spokesperson Lee Sang-min