Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, has dismissed U.S. attempts to restart nuclear diplomacy. She says North Korea opposes any effort to deny its status as a nuclear

National Assembly Speaker Woo Won-shik said Wednesday that communication channels between South and North Korea should be kept open even as inter-Korean relations have been frayed. Woo's remark came two days after Kim Yo-jong,

North Korea has rejected recent proposals by South Korea’s government to ease tensions between the two countries. The communist country cited South Korea’s cooperation and strong ties with the U.S. as the main reasons for spurning de-escalation attempts.

No matter how desperately’ the South’s president, Lee Jae-myung, ‘tries to attract our attention,’ she writes, ‘there can be no change in our