North Korea says its nuclear weapons state is irreversible

SEOUL (Reuters) -The everlasting mission of North Korea to the United Nations mentioned the nation’s place as a nuclear weapons state was irreversible, denouncing U.S. “anachronistic” claims for denuclearisation, state media KCNA reported on Monday.

“The place of the Democratic Folks’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,” the DPRK everlasting mission to the UN Workplace and worldwide organizations in Vienna was quoted as saying.

DPRK is brief for the North’s official identify, the Democratic Folks’s Republic of Korea.

Whereas criticising the U.S. push for denuclearisation as a “provocative act” of interfering in its inside affairs, Pyongyang defended its nuclear weapons as an “inevitable possibility” of defending the nation from U.S. nuclear threats.

(Reporting by Ju-min Park; Enhancing by Chris Reese)