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Talks aimed at spurring Korean reconciliation broke off Wednesday, with North Korea accusing South Korea of provoking Pyongyang by putting its forces on alert. A South Korean official in Seoul said it could be a long time before the two sides resume dialogue.
The Koreas had opened Cabinet-level talks at the Diamond Mountain resort in North Korea last Friday hoping to continue a thawing relations.
But delegates wound up Wednesday with no accord, despite a last-ditch push to keep talks alive by extending the meetings by two days.
The breakdown shatters the hopes of hundreds of elderly Koreans seeking to meet long-lost relatives under a reunion plan.
