North Korea on Sunday described denuclearization as an irreversibly finalized matter and denounced recent talks between South Korea and the United States that reaffirmed the goal.
An unnamed spokesperson for North Korea's foreign ministry said in a statement carried by the Korean Central News Agency that "the 'denuclearization' is an irreversibly finalized matter." The spokesperson criticized South Korea and the United States for reaffirming the goal at their Nuclear Consultative Group meeting on Thursday.
The spokesperson called it "an unreasonable talk and fantastic daydream to mention about disarming the other belligerent party's nuclear weapons." The statement also addressed the Extended Deterrence Dialogue between the United States and Japan last week.
"The U.S. and its vassal forces' meaningless rhetoric against the DPRK and cooperation in posing a nuclear threat to it can never affect the irreversible position of the DPRK as a nuclear weapons state," the spokesperson said. "No matter how hard the U.S., Japan and the ROK may quibble, they will never change the present position of the DPRK as a nuclear weapons state."
