North Korea on Monday rejected the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Regional Forum’s renewed call for the complete denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula as a “foolish attempt.”
Pyongyang also insisted that its status as a nuclear weapons state was “final and irreversible.”
In a statement carried by the Korean Central News Agency, Kim Yo-jong condemned the chair’s statement issued after the forum’s recent foreign ministers’ meeting in the Philippines.
Kim, a senior official of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea and the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, accused the forum of adopting a “hostile attitude.”
She said the forum endorsed the US position on denuclearisation while disregarding North Korea’s constitution, which defines the country as a nuclear weapons state.
“The act of the US and its vassal forces to change the status of the DPRK as a nuclear weapons state … is nothing but a foolish attempt,” she said, according to KCNA.
