Original Coverage & Source Attribution: news.sbs.co.kr
▲ North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui
North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui reiterated that Pyongyang has no intention of abandoning its nuclear weapons, pushing back against the recent Group of Seven (G7) Foreign Ministers’ Meeting that condemned North Korea’s unlawful nuclear and missile threats and reaffirmed efforts toward complete denuclearization.
In a statement, Choe asserted that the United States and Western nations at the G7 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting repeated routine claims of complete denuclearization regarding North Korea’s exercise of its sovereign rights, arguing that its status as a nuclear-armed state can never be an issue for Western discussion.
She strongly claimed that none of them is qualified to address or evaluate nuclear issues, stating that the G7 is a forum where countries such as “the United States or the United Kingdom pose severe nuclear threats to regional and global security environments through the illegal proliferation of military nuclear technology,” or where “a defeated state like Japan runs rampant, attempting nuclear armament to realize neo-militarist ambitions.”
Earlier, the G7 foreign ministers stated in a joint statement on November 10 that they “strongly condemn North Korea’s unlawful nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs and reaffirm our commitment to realizing North Korea’s complete denuclearization in accordance with United Nations Security Council resolutions.”
They also expressed concern over North Korea’s theft of cryptocurrency, cybercrimes, and the issue of abductions.
Choe maintained, “I reaffirm once again most clearly the unshakable and steadfast determination of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to possess nuclear weapons,” adding, “The only way to guarantee peace and stability in the Korean Peninsula region lies not in advocating unachievable denuclearization, but in respecting the constitutional status of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.”
(Photo: Korean Central Television screenshot, Yonhap News)
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