North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui on G7 Denuclearization Statement: "Impossible to Achieve... Nuclear Weapons Resolve Is Immutable"

North Korea pushed back against a joint statement by the foreign ministers of the Group of Seven (G7), which reaffirmed their commitment to the “complete denuclearization of North Korea,” and once again emphasized its determination to possess nuclear weapons.

North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui said in a statement carried by the Korean Central News Agency on November 12, “Our assessment and position that possessing nuclear weapons is the best guarantee of safeguarding national sovereignty are absolutely immutable.”

North Korean First Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui

Choe said, “We strongly condemn and reject the G7’s malicious criticism of our country’s constitutional rights, and once again reaffirm, in the clearest terms, the firm and unwavering will of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to possess nuclear weapons, a resolve that nothing can shake.”

She also criticized the G7, saying, “It has no right to discuss or pass judgment on anyone else’s nuclear issues when it includes countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom, which create serious nuclear threats to regional and global security through the illicit proliferation of military nuclear technology, and a defeated nation such as Japan, which seeks nuclear armament to realize its neo-militarist ambitions.”

She further asserted, “The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s possession of nuclear weapons is a legitimate and just exercise of sovereignty that fully accords with the right to self-defense enshrined in the UN Charter. Denying this is tantamount to denying the truth and openly revealing hostile intentions aimed at confronting the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.”

She added, “The only way to ensure peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula is not to advocate ‘denuclearization,’ an issue that cannot be realized either in theory or in practice, but to respect the constitutional status of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.”

Earlier, the foreign ministers of the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy and Canada issued a joint statement on November 11 (local time), after concluding a G7 foreign ministers’ meeting in Paris, France. They said they “strongly condemn North Korea’s unlawful nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs and reaffirm their commitment to achieving the complete denuclearization of North Korea in accordance with all relevant UN Security Council resolutions.”

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