SEOUL, South Korea – The Permanent Mission of North Korea to the United Nations has criticized the US for having nuclear weapons and urged it to cease “sharing nuclear” or “beefing up extended deterrence,” state media KCNA reported on Saturday.
While criticizing the US over the AUKUS alliance and the Nuclear Consultative Group with South Korea, Pyongyang defended its nuclear weapons as an “exercise of sovereignty.”
“Signatories to the NPT (Non-Proliferation Treaty) should not take issue with the DPRK over its legitimate exercise of sovereignty, as it had legally withdrawn from the NPT 20 years ago,” the DPRK everlasting mission to the UN Office and worldwide organizations in Vienna was quoted as saying.
DPRK is brief for the North’s official identify, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
“Its nuclear force will never be a threat to those countries respecting its sovereignty and security interests,” the everlasting mission stated. — Reuters
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