(VOVworld) - North Korea has rejected South Korea's recent offer of talks on Monday, claiming Seoul should first give up its confrontational policy toward Pyongyang.

North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un (Photo: Reuters)

South Korea's parliamentary speaker, Chung Ui-hwa, proposed inter-Korean talks on Friday to mark the 70th anniversary of Korea's liberation from Japan's 1910-45 colonial rule. On the same day, the South Korean Defense Ministry invited North Korea to the Seoul Defense Dialogue slated for September. The North referred to the dialogue offer as the South's wicked attempts to politicize inter-Korean talks, according to the Korean Central News Agency.