SEOUL: North Korea's top ruling body on Thursday again rejected South Korea's call for talks, saying Seoul's conservative leaders should "repent of their crimes" and honour past summit agreements.
South Korean leaders have said there is a "window of opportunity" for dialogue to ease tense relations following the death of Pyongyang's long-time leader Kim Jong-Il on December 17.
The North's new regime headed by Kim's youngest son Jong-Un has repeatedly rejected any dealings with the South's leaders, whom it blasts as "traitors" to the Korean people.
On Thursday the National Defence Commission issued a nine-point "open questionnaire" to the government of President Lee Myung-Bak and told him to stop taking about dialogue until it has responded.
It urged Lee's government "to be well aware of its plight, stop talking about north-south dialogue and improved relations and double-think whether it has qualifications to be a dialogue partner of the DPRK (North Korea)", Pyongyang's official news agency reported.
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