South Korea to take necessary actions to maintain DPRK-U.S. dialogue momentum

South Korea’s unification ministry said on Monday that the country will take necessary actions to maintain dialogue momentum between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the United States.

Lee Sang-min, spokesman of the unification ministry, told a press briefing that the government will take necessary actions and make efforts to maintain and advance the DPRK-U.S. dialogue momentum as both the DPRK and the United States still have willingness to make progress through dialogue.

The comment came after the DPRK’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Sunday that it conducted a “very important test” at the Sohae Satellite Launching Ground on Saturday.

The DPRK’s Academy of National Defense Science reported the results of the “successful test of great significance” to the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea.

The test will “have an important effect on changing the strategic position of the DPRK once again in the near future,” said the KCNA without further elaboration.

The spokesman said South Korea will closely monitor relevant situations in the DPRK while taking current situations very gravely, noting that Seoul was closely watching relevant situations in cooperation with Washington.