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,

Experts say the comments suggest that North Korea has no plan to return to diplomacy with South Korea and the U.S.

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.

A day after releasing a statement rejecting the South Korean government’s dialogue approach, Pyongyang sent a message to Washington on its baseline for talks.

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