The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has no intention to sit down with the United States and urged the Republic of Korea (ROK) to "stop meddling," a senior diplomat said on Tuesday, just as a U.S. envoy arrived in Seoul in an effort to renew stalled nuclear talks with Pyongyang. 

Kwon Jong Gun, director general for U.S. affairs at Pyongyang's foreign ministry, accused the ROK of misinterpreting an earlier DPRK statement dismissing an "untimely rumor" about another summit between DPRK leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump. 

The DPRK said on Saturday it does not feel the need for a new summit, days after ROK President Moon Jae-in, who had offered to mediate between Kim and Trump, suggested the two leaders meet again before the U.S. elections in November. 

"It is just the time for (ROK) to stop meddling in others' affairs but it seems there is no cure or prescription for its bad habit," Kwon said in a statement carried by the official KCNA news agency. 

"Explicitly speaking once again, we have no intention to sit face to face with the United States."

Trump and Kim met for the first time in 2018 in Singapore, raising hopes for a negotiated end to Pyongyang's nuclear programs. But their second summit in 2019 in Vietnam, and subsequent working-level negotiations fell apart. 

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State and special envoy for the DPRK Stephen Biegun arrived in Seoul on Tuesday for talks about denuclearizing the DPRK, reported Yonhap News Agency. 

Biegun will travel to Seoul and Tokyo from July 7-10 to meet his counterparts there and continue "close allied coordination" on bilateral and global issues as well as the DPRK, according to a statement released by the U.S. State Department. 

ROK Foreign Ministry said that Biegun is slated to meet with ROK Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha on Wednesday morning, followed by the eighth round of ROK-U.S. vice-ministerial strategic dialogue with Cho Sei-young, ROK's first vice foreign minister, to discuss the issues of mutual concern. 

Biegun said last week there is time for both sides to re-engage and "make substantial progress," but the coronavirus pandemic would make an in-person summit difficult before the U.S. presidential elections on November 3. 

Tensions escalated on the Korean Peninsula after the DPRK demolished the inter-Korean joint liaison office building in the DPRK's border city of Kaesong last month in protest against anti-Pyongyang leaflets sent across the border by ROK civic group activists, mostly defectors from the DPRK. The DPRK has also cut off all communication lines with the ROK. 

(With input from Reuters, Xinhua: Cover via Reuters)