mo4ch:>‘Nonsense’: N. Korea won’t stop tests, rejects talks with Seoul unless it ends drills with US | Mo4ch News

There will be no direct talks with South Korea if it continues to stage joint military exercises with the US, a senior North Korean diplomat has said. The warning comes just as Pyongyang test-fired two short-range missiles.South Korea must know that “Inter-Korean contact itself will be difficult” unless “they put an end” to the ongoing joint military drill with the US, Kwon Jon-gun, director-general for American affairs at the Foreign Ministry, said on Sunday.Earlier in the day, the US and South Korea kicked off the main part of their 10-day computer-simulated command post exercise. The drill was due to be called Alliance 19-2 to signify the military bond between the allies but the name was ultimately dropped, ostensibly not to irritate Pyongyang, which sees all US-South Korean drills as a security threat.The exercise’s name change, however, does not “alter its aggressive nature,” Kwon stressed, saying that direct talks with Seoul are impossible in such circumstances.Also on rt.comN. …