Kim Yo Jong, deputy department director of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, issued the following press statement “The anachronistic ‘denuclearization’ idea of the US, Japan and the ROK can never affect the position of our state” on April 8:

At the recent NATO foreign ministers’ meeting, the diplomatic authorities of the US, Japan and the ROK talked again about someone’s “complete denuclearization,” terming the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s exercise of its sovereign rights a “threat.”

It only fully exposed the uneasiness of the US, Japan and the ROK in a desperate plight of having to talk about “denuclearization” in chorus although they know that our “denuclearization” is nothing but a daydream that can never come true.

Just two months ago, we clarified how stupid the US is in pursuing the goal of “denuclearizing” the DPRK, something utterly impossible and unrealistic in practice and conception.

They still talk about “complete denuclearization,” dreaming a daydream of the past that brought them to failure and revealing by themselves how anachronistic and absurd their level of political judgement is.

Did they come up with a good way to realize someone’s “denuclearization” whenever they had a loud brainstorming session?

If they frantically cry out for “denuclearization,” really believing in it, they must be termed nonsensical.

The position of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea as a nuclear weapons state, established along with the existence of its substantial and very strong nuclear deterrent and permanently enshrined in its supreme and basic state law according to the unanimous will of all its people, is a result of the inevitable option which accurately reflected the hostile threat from outside and the change in the present and future world security mechanical structure. So it does not change no matter how desperately anyone denies.

We don’t care about anyone’s denial and recognition and we never change our option.

This is our steadfast choice that can never be reversed by any physical strength or sly artifice.

If anyone openly talks about the dismantlement of our nuclear weapons before us or seeks to revive the dead concept of “denuclearization” under various pretexts, it just constitutes the most hostile act of denying the sovereignty of the DPRK and forcing it to renounce its constitution and social system. I’d like to make it clear once again on this occasion.

The nuclear forces of the DPRK are not only playing a key role in deterring aggression and threat from outside and defending the sovereignty and security of the state but also making an important contribution to ensuring the regional and global balance of power and strategic security.

The only way for the US, Japan and the ROK to defuse their current security concern is to completely refrain from their unilateral attempt to change the status quo and shake the present position of the DPRK, and to sincerely ponder on how to avoid head-on conflict.

If the US and its vassal forces continue to insist on anachronistic “denuclearization” while talking about “threat” from someone, it will only give unlimited justness and justification to the advance of the DPRK aspiring to the building of the strongest nuclear forces for self-defence.

The DPRK will make steady and responsible efforts to thoroughly defend the supreme interests of the state and ensure regional peace and stability, given that the US has gone to extremes in its nuclear threat and its nuclear alliance is getting desperate in its confrontational moves as days go by.

KCNA