South Korea’s Unification Minister Hong Yong-pyo says that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and his regime are depending on the old ideologies and instructions of his predecessors without presenting any new strategies or visions.

Hong presented the assessment on the North’s recent party congress on Tuesday during a session of the parliamentary committee on foreign affairs and unification.

The minister said that the North failed to present any new directions or policies and simply stressed the old ideologies from the eras of Kim Il-song and Kim Jong-il.

He said that at the party congress, the Kim Jong-un regime tried to bolster the power system of the leader and the North’s status of a nuclear state. Hong said that the North presented a five-year economic development plan, but there was nothing new about it. 

The minister also dismissed the North’s call for inter-Korean military talks, calling it a propaganda offensive.

He said that Pyongyang has no sincerity about the talks, citing its threat to liberate Seoul and attempt to blame the South for strained inter-Korean relations.