Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — North Korea says it might behind out of a family reunions it concluded to reason with South Korea if a latter continues with a annual drills it binds with a United States.

Annual troops exercises in a segment by South Korean and U.S. army are scheduled for a finish of this month.

“The brazen act of fight is a aroused defilement and transgression of humanitarianism,” a orator for a North Korean Policy Department of a National Defense Commission pronounced Thursday.

“It does not make clarity to lift out a reunion of families, who were distant due to a War, during a dangerous chief fight practice.”

The drills, a South Korean invulnerability method pronounced Thursday, will go on.

The reunions of about 100 people from any nation are scheduled to take place between Feb 20 and 25, a South Korean joint method pronounced Wednesday, following face-to-face talks between a dual sides.

If they go ahead, a meetings of divided Korean families would be a initial to take place given 2010.

North Korea has unceremoniously pulled a block on such meetings in a past.

“If such agreements get incited around repeatedly, it can't pierce forward,” South Korean Unification Minister Rhoo Kihl-jae told reporters. “We’ve seen these in a past several decades. To enhance a trust, we wish to contend that a agreement contingency be kept.”

Koreans pull for family reunions

Drills exasperate N.Korea

The drills exasperate North Korea, that says it sees them as a preface to an invasion. Last year, it ratcheted adult a melancholy tongue to shocking levels as a exercises took place.

In a calls so distant this year for improved relations, North Korea has asked South Korea not to take partial in a drills — a ask that Seoul and Washington have rejected.

Past disappointment

Reunions were due to take place final September, though Pyongyang canceled them with usually a few days notice, accusing Seoul of souring ties between a dual countries.

The reunions are an emotive issue. And time is using out for many of a flourishing members of a families that were separate by a 1950-53 fight between a dual Koreas. A lot of them are now in their 80s and 90s.

Tens of thousands of people in South Korea are on a list of those wanting to take partial in a reunions.

This month’s designed reunions are scheduled to take place during a site where prior ones were held: Mount Kumgang, a review on a North Korean side of a limit that used to be jointly operated by both sides.