Seoul, Feb 2 (IANS): South Korea Monday renewed call for resuming dialogue with North Korea after its offer to hold talks in January failed to bear positive result.

If North Korea really has a will to resolve pending issues and improve inter-Korean relations, it should come to the dialogue table, Xinhua quoted South Korea's Unification Ministry spokesman Lim Byeong-cheol as saying.

The renewed appeal came after Seoul's proposal for talks failed, with no response coming from Pyongyang until January-end.

Unification Minister Ryoo Kihl-jae December-end proposed to hold ministerial-level talks with North Korean counterparts in January to discuss all issues of mutual concern irrespective of the form of dialogue.

South Korea wants discussions on having a reunion event for Korean families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War, hoping the event could be held around the Lunar New Year holiday falling in mid-February, 2015.

Pyongyang, however, has remained unresponsive about the dialogue offer, saying that if South Korea lifts sanctions against the country, it will respond to call for the reunion event.