By Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea has no interest in any policy or proposals for reconciliation from South Korea, the powerful sister of its leader Kim Jong Un said on Monday, in the first response to peace overtures by the South's liberal President Lee Jae Myung.

Opened on 1 July, the Wonsan Kalma Coastal Tourist Zone is seen as a key part of President Kim Jong Un's ambitions to boost tourism.

North Korean officials welcome Russian passengers with flowers at Pyongyang International Airport as the two countries resume the first commercial flights between their capitals in decades. Russia and North Korea have pulled closer in the last year,

The new eight-hour Boeing 777 flight comes after Nordwind Airlines' dozens of routes to Europe and Asia were cut due to the war in Ukraine.

In another pointed statement issued on July 29, Kim Yo-jong, the influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and a senior official in the ruling Workers’ Party, dismissed renewed American interest in resuming dialogue as misguided nostalgia.

Russia will launch direct passenger flights from Moscow to North Korea 's capital Pyongyang on Sunday, Russian authorities said, as the two former communist bloc allies move to improve ties following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said the country would achieve victory in "anti-imperalist, anti-U.S." battles, as the country marked the anniversary of the Korean War armistice, state media reported on Sunday.