The Presidential Office on the 28th responded to North Korea's official position stating that there is 'absolutely no willingness to dialogue with Korea' since the inauguration of the Lee Jae-myung administration by saying, 'The government intends to take necessary actions consistently to create a Korean Peninsula without hostility and war.'

President Lee Jae-myung presides over the 5th Chief Secretary Meeting held at the Presidential Office in Yongsan, Seoul on the 24th. /Courtesy of the Presidential Office

The Presidential Office noted, 'The government is paying attention to the North's position expressed through the first dialogue with a senior North Korean official since the inauguration of the Lee Jae-myung administration,' adding, 'Having confirmed that the wall of distrust between the North and South has been raised significantly due to several years of hostile confrontation policies, establishing peace without the need for conflict is the solid philosophy of the Lee Jae-myung administration.'

According to the Korean Central News Agency, earlier, Kim Yo-jong, the deputy director of the North's Labor Party, stated in a commentary titled 'The Korean relations have completely transcended the concept of kinship,' that 'We have no interest in any policy coming out of Seoul, and there will be no meetings with Korea.' She also said, 'The Lee Jae-myung administration's blind faith in the ROK-U.S. alliance and its attempt to confront us are no different from those of its predecessor,' adding that 'the suspension of North Korean broadcasting is not worth evaluating.'

The deputy director stated regarding the mention of an invitation to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit scheduled for late October in Gyeongju, 'They are nurturing a vain delusion.'

Regarding the new government's policy of reconciliation towards North Korea, she expressed, 'If the South Korean authorities speak of the suspension of psychological warfare propaganda broadcasts against the North as the first signal of restoring inter-Korean trust, all of these are merely issues that Korea has brought upon itself; no matter how they address them, it will only be their own concern, and they are merely reversing actions that should have never been taken in the first place.'

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