LONDON — North Korean officers on Monday stated the nation’s standing as nuclear state “has turn into irreversible,” regardless of efforts by the West to barter an finish to the manufacturing of these weapons, based on state media.
“The place of the Democratic Individuals’s Republic of Korea as a nuclear weapons state which has been completely specified within the supreme and primary legislation of the state has turn into irreversible,” North Korea’s Everlasting Mission to the U.N. stated in a press assertion, based on the Korean Central Information Company.
The Worldwide Atomic Power Company, the intergovernmental physique for nuclear cooperation, has no “authorized proper and ethical justification” to intervene with what North Korea think about an “inner affair,” the mission’s press assertion stated.
This image taken on Sept. 9, 2025, and launched by North Korea’s official Korean Central Information Company exhibits North Korean chief Kim Jong Un attending the flag-raising ceremony and central oath-taking rally.
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The assertion on Monday was one among a number of anti-U.S. messages issued by North Korea that coincided with the launch of Freedom Edge 25, a joint army train being held by the US, South Korea and Japan, off South Korea’s Jeju Island. These drills are scheduled to run by means of Sept. 19.
North Korea’s Pak Jong Chon, vice-chairman of the Central Navy Fee, stated on Sunday that these drills “pose a grave problem to the safety pursuits of our state and a serious hazard of undermining regional stability and escalating army rigidity,” based on state media.
The secretive state on Monday accused the US of violating its personal acknowledged obligation of stopping nuclear proliferation “whereas concentrating greater than anybody else on nuclear energy buildup.”
“The U.S. has gone to extremes in its nuclear menace as days go by and the U.S.-led nuclear alliance is getting determined in its confrontational strikes,” the North Korean officers stated on Monday.
This image taken on September 9, 2025 and launched by North Korea’s official Korean Central Information Company through KNS on Sept. 10, 2025 exhibits North Korean chief Kim Jong Un attending the flag-raising ceremony.
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IAEA Director Basic Rafael Mariano Grossi earlier this month pointed to North Korea’s nuclear growth applications as “clear violations” of U.N. Safety Council resolutions.
He stated his company nonetheless “continues to keep up its enhanced readiness to play its important function in verifying the DPRK’s nuclear program.”
ABC Information’ Will Gretsky contributed to this report.
