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Nuclear: North Korea refuses to disarm

2023-04-21T05:12:19.647Z


The G7 had urged the communist dictatorship to “complete, verifiable and irreversible abandonment of nuclear weapons”.


North Korea on Friday rejected the G7's call to "

refrain

" from any new nuclear test or ballistic missile launch, reaffirming that its status as a nuclear power was "

final and irreversible

".

North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui denounced an "

extremely interventionist

" statement by the G7, saying the world's seven largest economic powers are "

maliciously

" attacking "

the legitimate exercise of sovereignty

" of his country.

"

The position of the DPRK (

Democratic People's Republic of Korea, editor's note

) as a world-class nuclear power is final and irreversible

," Choe Son Hui hammered in a statement published by the official KCNA news agency.

For the minister, the "

G7, a closed group of a handful of selfish countries, does not represent the international community (in a way) fairly, but serves as a political tool to ensure the hegemony of the United States"

.

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A few days earlier, the G7 foreign ministers had urged Pyongyang to “

refrain from any further destabilizing or provocative actions

” and had urged it to “

complete, verifiable and irreversible abandonment of nuclear weapons

”.

The door to any negotiation on the disarmament of North Korea, a fortiori after the declarations of Choe Son Hui, therefore seems definitively closed.

Pyongyang has recently increased its ballistic missile tests and had already announced last year that its status as a nuclear power was "irreversible".

Washington and Seoul have strengthened their military cooperation and multiplied large-scale joint maneuvers in the region, which has provoked the ire of the North, which considers these exercises as dress rehearsals for an invasion of its territory.

Source: lefigaro

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