Seoul on Sunday rejected Pyongyang's demand that Seoul officials come to a mountain resort in the communist nation later this week over its plan to freeze southern assets at the beleaguered resort.
Last week, North Korea said it would freeze some South Korean facilities at its Mount Geumgang resort and find a new partner to run tours to the resort in apparent anger over Seoul's refusal to reopen the lucrative cross-border tour program to the resort.
The five facilities to be frozen belong to either South Korea's government or a state-run tourism agency, such as a family reunion center, a fire station and a duty free shop.
The North has since told Hyundai Asan, the South Korean organizer of the now suspended tours to the mountain, that it would carry out the asset freeze Tuesday, and officials representing the owners of the properties should appear at the resort for the measure.
"We won't comply with the demand," Unification Ministry spokesman Chun Hae-sung said Sunday.
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