SEOUL: North Korea on Thursday rejected Seoul’s call for talks on the fate of a South Korean missionary sentenced to hard labor for life for allegedly spying and operating an underground church.

South Korea proposed on Tuesday that the two sides should meet at the border truce village of Panmunjom for discussion on Kim Jeong-Wook, who was captured in the North last October.

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