Press Statement of DPRK Foreign Minister
Pyongyang, September 24 (KCNA) – Choe Son Hui, foreign minister of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, on Thursday released the following press statement “The DPRK remains unchanged in its will to keep nuclear weapons forever”:
The U.S., Japan and the ROK fully expressed their anachronistic and confrontational nature once again to remain invariably hostile to the DPRK by raising the unrealistic “denuclearization” target.
At the tripartite talks held on the sideline of the 81st session of the UN General Assembly, the diplomatic authorities of the U.S., Japan and the ROK made public a “joint statement”, in which they reconfirmed the firm will to “denuclearize” someone according to the “resolution” of the UN Security Council.
This proved once again that no matter how the U.S. and its allies change their expressions and let loose a string of rhetoric, they do not give up a daydream about “denuclearization” and can never drop it.
It is not new that the “denuclearization” issue was discussed at the meeting of the U.S., Japan and the ROK which have adopted antagonism toward the DPRK as their state policies, and on the contrary, it would have been surprised and questionable if there had been no mention about it.
As the foreign minister of the DPRK, I reaffirm and reconfirm in the strongest tone of voice the steadfast will of our state to keep nuclear weapons through all ages, which is irreversible in any case and will remain unchanged forever.
The strong-arm policy against the DPRK came to failure, and any state or force can never compel us to withdraw from defending the national sovereignty and the core interests.
The coexistence of confrontation and dialogue may be workable for anyone, but they can never be considerable one for the DPRK.
Steadfast is our appreciation and stand that nuclear weapons are the core component of national sovereignty and the most reliable guarantee for defending sovereign rights that no one can provoke. And the more loudly the U.S. and its allies may cry out for “denuclearization”, the more it will only prove the validity of our state’s just access to nuclear weapons and give a justification for strengthening them and harden its stand against the U.S. and the enemies.
To deny the reality is to give up the future.
There is no change in the fact that the DPRK’s position as a nuclear weapons state will be everlasting as inviolable one in disregard of the hostile forces’ rhetorical assertion, and it is inevitable to reorganize and fix the geopolitical structure centered on the DPRK with nukes. -0-
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Spokesman for DPRK Foreign Ministry Issues Press Statement
Pyongyang, September 24 (KCNA) – A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea released the following press statement on September 24:
A “joint statement” accusing the DPRK of its self-defensive nuclear activities was cooked up and released at a recent ministerial meeting of the “Friends of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty” held in New York.
The Foreign Ministry of the DPRK strongly condemns and rejects as a grave political provocation against the DPRK such behavior of the hostile forces who took issue with the DPRK’s legitimate and just exercise of its sovereign rights under the pretext of the promotion of earlier effectuation of the CTBT.
The member states of the “Friends of the CTBT”, which sponsored the recent ministerial meeting, are the allies or satellite countries of the U.S., the chief culprit systematically destroying the international nuclear non-proliferation system. So they have neither qualification nor face to debate the DPRK’s legitimate exercise of its right to self-defence.
It has been 30 years since the conclusion of the CTBT, but it has not yet come into effect. It is entirely because of the U.S. and its vassal forces which have openly committed criminal nuclear proliferation out of their wild ambition to secure their global nuclear hegemony.
The U.S.-led nuclear proliferation, from the sharing of nuclear weapons with NATO in the 1950s and deployment of its nuclear weapons abroad to the emergence of the nuclear submarine alliance AUKUS and the transfer of nuclear submarine technology to the ROK, has been recorded as grave threats to international peace and security.
In particular, remilitarization of Japan revealing its ill-intended scheme to arm itself with nuclear weapons through the modification of the Three Non-Nuclear Principles and the retrogressive constitutional amendments, oblivious of the lesson from its defeat in the Second World War, constitutes an actual security challenge to be strictly watched and deterred by the international community.
The criminal acts of the countries failing to honour their nuclear-disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation duty are being connived at, but a sovereign state’s legitimate exercise of its right to self-defence is being faulted. As such abnormal situation lingers, the international nuclear disarmament system and the nuclear non-proliferation system are being shaken to their roots.
Such stereotyped racket of some dishonest forces has no impact on the DPRK’s position as a nuclear weapons state.
The DPRK will never tolerate any attempts to deny its national sovereignty and constitutional position but make positive contributions to the international efforts for ensuring peace of the Korean peninsula and the rest of the world as a responsible nuclear weapons state. -0-
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