North Korea to keep nuclear weapons 'forever', says foreign minister
Choe Son Hui said North Korea will keep its nuclear weapons forever after U.S., South Korea and Japan renewed calls for denuclearization.
- On Thursday, North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui vowed the country's nuclear status is "irreversible" and will remain "forever," dismissing South Korean calls for denuclearization.
- South Korean President Lee Jae Myung told the General Assembly a day earlier that he wanted to halt Pyongyang's weapons growth and achieve a Korean Peninsula "free from nuclear weapons."
- The country's atomic arsenal was legally enshrined, with Choe stating in a Korean Central News Agency release that the "steadfast will of our state to keep nuclear weapons" is "everlasting."
- While Lee seeks to "lay the groundwork" for talks between Washington and Pyongyang, Choe rejected the coexistence of "confrontation and dialogue" as unworkable for the DPRK.
- Separately, Pyongyang tested "updated 240-millimetre controlled multiple-launch rockets" on September 22, while President Donald Trump said last month he planned to meet Kim Jong later this year.
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n1info.rsThe Ministry of Foreign Affairs of North Korea today rejected an international statement calling on the country to suspend nuclear tests, and a spokesman in Pyongyang called the move by "enemy forces" a "serious political provocation against the country", the British agency Reuters reported.
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North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui on Thursday rejected a joint call by the United States, South Korea and Japan for Pyongyang to denuclearize and return to dialogue, saying the country remains “unchanged in its will to keep nuclear weapons forever.” In a statement released through the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), Choe […]
In front of the UN General Assembly, South Korea's President Lee states that he wants to make the Korean peninsula "free of nuclear weapons". North Korea apparently thinks little of it.
North Korea will retain its nuclear weapon "for all time," assured its Foreign Minister, after South Korea's president pleaded for a "Korean peninsula without nuclear weapons."
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