North Korea has unilaterally cancelled inter-Korean family reunions in protest of South Korea's suspension of rice and fertilizer aid.

President of the North’s Red Cross Jang Jae-on notified Seoul of the decision in a letter to President of the South Korean National Red Cross Han Wan-sang Wednesday.

The letter also notified the scrapping of a previous bilateral agreement to build a permanent reunion center at the North's Mount Geumgang resort.

The two Koreas have been holding temporary reunions of families separated by the division of the Korean Peninsula in 1945 and during the 1950-to-1953 Korean War on an irregular basis.

Another round of reunions was scheduled to take place on August 15th to mark the nation's liberation from the Japanese colonial occupation.

At the latest inter-Korean Cabinet-level talks last week, Seoul halted its rice and fertilizer aid to the North in protest of Pyongyang's missile tests.