North Korea said its status as a nuclear–armed state is “permanently enshrined” in its law and “irreversible,” state media reported on Monday, September 15th, condemning the U.S. for demanding its denuclearisation.
in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency, the North Korean UN mission condemned how
Recently, at a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Board of Governors, the U.S. once again committed a grave political provocation by branding our possession of nuclear weapons as illegal and clamouring about denuclearisation.
In response, the status of North Korea “as a nuclear–armed state, enshrined permanently in the nation’s supreme and fundamental law, has become irreversible,” the statement said, noting the country has not had “official relations” with the nuclear watchdog for more than 30 years.
The IAEA has “neither the legal authority nor the moral justification to interfere in the internal affairs of a nuclear–armed state that exists outside the Nuclear Non–Proliferation Treaty,” it said.
North Korea withdrew from the IAEA in 1994 after a standoff over nuclear inspections, claiming the agency was being used by Washington to infringe on its sovereignty. Its current belligerence coincides with sending troops to aid Russia in its war in Ukraine.
