Kim Yo Jong, the influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, said Monday that Pyongyang had "no interest" in efforts by Seoul to improve relations.

South Korea on Tuesday asked North Korea to contact the South through inter-Korean communication channels if it intends to retrieve the body of a man believed to be a North Korean national discovered along South Korea's west coast last month.

South Korea on Tuesday called on North Korea to respond to its plan to repatriate the remains of a North Korean national found on the southern side of the inter-Korean maritime border. The remains of the body believed to be those of a North Korean national were found on the shore of Seongmodo,

Seoul's Unification Ministry on Tuesday publicly called for Pyongyang to respond to its plan to repatriate the remains of a North Korean national found in June.