Politics

Choe Son Hui, foreign minister of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, on September 24 released the following press statement "The DPRK remains unchanged forever in its will to keep nuclear weapons":

The US, Japan and the ROK fully expressed their anachronistic and confrontational nature once again to remain invariably hostile to the DPRK by raising the unrealistic "denuclearization" target.

At the tripartite talks held on the sideline of the 81st Session of the UN General Assembly, the diplomatic authorities of the US, Japan and the ROK made public a "joint statement", in which they reconfirmed the firm will to "denuclearize" someone according to the "resolution" of the UN Security Council.

This proved once again that no matter how the US and its allies change their expressions and rhetoric, they have not abandoned a daydream about "denuclearization" and can never do so.

It is not new that the "denuclearization" issue was discussed at the meeting of the US, Japan and the ROK which have pursued hostility toward the DPRK as their state policies, but rather it would have been surprising and questionable if there had been no mention about it.

As the foreign minister of the DPRK, I reaffirm and reconfirm in the strongest tone of voice the steadfast will of our state to keep nuclear weapons, which is irreversible in any case and will remain unchanged forever.

The strong-arm policy against the DPRK came to failure, and no state and force can compel us to retreat from defending our national sovereignty and core interests.

The coexistence of confrontation and dialogue may be workable for anyone, but they can never be an object of consideration for the DPRK.

Steadfast is our appreciation and stand that nuclear weapons are the core component of national sovereignty and the most reliable guarantee for defending sovereign rights that no one can provoke. And as the US and its allies cry out for "denuclearization" more loudly, it will only prove the validity of our state's just access to nuclear weapons, give it justification for strengthening them and harden its stand against the US and other enemies.

To deny the reality is to give up the future.

There is no change in the fact that the DPRK's position as a nuclear weapons state will be everlasting as inviolable one in disregard of the hostile forces' rhetorical assertion, and it is inevitable that the geopolitical structure will be reorganized and fixed centring on the DPRK possessing nukes.