File photo taken on Oct. 4, 2007 shows a soldier (L) of the People's Army of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) looks on as a South Korean soldier stands guard at the truce village of Panmunjom, border between South Korea and the DPRK.(Xinhua/Gong Bing)

"We have no idea to sit together with the authorities of the south side who evoke only disgust and nasty feelings."

PYONGYANG, June 17  -- A senior official of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) said on Wednesday that his government would not sit together with the authorities of South Korea and "there will be neither exchange nor cooperation in the future."

"We have no idea to sit together with the authorities of the south side who evoke only disgust and nasty feelings," Jang Kum Chol, director of the United Front Department of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, said in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).

"That's why we began removing means for contact between the north and the south," he said.