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SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- South Korea's unification minister said Thursday that no confidence was felt during the aborted talks on reopening the Kaesong industrial complex, as Democratic People' s Republic of Korea (DPRK) still refrained from giving its word on no future unilateral shutdown of the joint industrial zone.
Unification Minister Ryoo Kihl-jae made the remarks to lawmakers of the main opposition Democratic Party, who visited the Unification Ministry building, according to Yonhap News Agency.
His remarks came after the sixth round of working-level talks between Seoul and Pyongyang to reopen the jointly operated factory park eventually broke down last Thursday amid differences over conditions for the normalization of the factory park.
Seoul called on Pyongyang to give firm guarantees that it will never close the complex again in the future for political reasons, while the DPRK urged South Korea to normalize operations as early as possible.
Park Chol-su, Pyongyang's top delegate, said that while the DPRK sought to find a middle ground at the talks, South Korea stuck to its guns without any concessions and created artificial impasse to the dialogue.
Democratic Party lawmakers told Minister Ryoo that South Korea' s "inflexible" negotiating attitude was to blame for the dialogue breakdown, saying that Seoul's strongly worded expressions such as "grave resolution" or "final talks"" reduced its own elbowroom.
On Sunday, Ryoo proposed the final offer of talks with Pyongyang on normalizing operations of the Kaesong industrial park, saying that it will make a "grave resolution" unless the DPRK provides a clear assurance for the recurrence prevention.
Pyongyang has made no response to the dialogue offer yet. The Unification Ministry received no message from the DPRK through the inter-Korean communication line at the truce village of Panmunjom.
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