North Korea has no interest in conducting talks as long as “military threats” by the U.S. and South Korea continue, the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) said in a statement released Thursday morning.

The statement, delivered by a spokesperson for the DPRK foreign ministry, condemned recent joint ROK-U.S. military drills, as well as Seoul’s acquisition of new stealth fighter jets and Sunday’s cruise missile flight test by the U.S., as “dangerous and unusual military moves.”

These actions, the statement said in an English-language translation carried by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), could “trigger a new cold war