FILE PHOTO: An employee enters a room in a hotel at Mount Kumgang resort in Kumgang September 1, 2011. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has rejected a South Korean offer to hold talks about the future of joint tourism facilities that leader Kim Jong Un recently ordered dismantled, the South's Unification Ministry said on Tuesday.
Kim said last week he wanted the "shabby" and "capitalist" facilities at Mt Kumgang resort removed and rebuilt, in the latest blow to South Korean hopes of reducing tensions between two nations still technically at war.
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