North Korean (North Korean) officials on Monday 15 September confirmed the status of the nuclear state pinned to North Korea could not be changed.
North Korea stressed this even though Western countries are trying to negotiate a halt to the production of nuclear weapons.
“The position of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea as a permanently designated nuclear weapons state in the country’s highest law and basis has become irreversible,” North Korea’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations said in a press statement, quoted by ABC News via the Korean Central News Agency.
The statement also emphasized that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which is an intergovernmental agency for nuclear cooperation, has no “law and moral justification” to interfere with what North Korea considers “internal affairs”.
North Korea’s commitment on Monday, September 15, was considered to be one of several anti-United States (US) statements.
The statements issued also coincided with joint US, South Korea (South Korea) and Japan military exercises, off the coast of Jeju Island, South Korea.
The US military exercise with its Asian allies is scheduled to last until September 19.
On Sunday 14 September, North Korea’s Deputy Chairman of the Central Military Commission, Pak Jong Chon said the military exercise “suggested serious challenges to our country’s security interests and major dangers that could undermine regional stability and increase military tensions.”
A day later, North Korean officials later accused the US of violating its own obligation to prevent nuclear proliferation.
“[US] is more focused than any other country on the development of nuclear power. The US has acted extremally in its nuclear threat as time goes on and the US-led nuclear alliance is increasingly desperate in its collaborative measures,” they said on Monday 15 September.
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