DPRK Foreign Minister's Press Statement

Pyongyang, November 12 (KCNA) -- Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea made public the following press statement on November 12:

At a recent G7 foreign ministers' meeting held in France, the U.S. and Western countries took issue with the DPRK's exercise of its sovereign right and made such stereotyped assertion as "complete denuclearization" once again.

As the foreign minister of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, I strongly condemn and reject the G7's vicious criticism about our state's constitutional right and reaffirm the DPRK's steadfast will for nuclear possession in the clearest terms.

The Korean peninsula issue, especially the position of the DPRK as a nuclear weapons state, can never be a subject of Western countries' debate.

G7 is not entitled to find fault with or comment on other's nuclear issue as it consists of such countries as the U.S. and the UK, which pose a serious nuclear threat to regional and global security environment through the illegal proliferation of nuclear technology for military purposes, and Japan, the defeated nation seeking to arm itself with nuclear weapons for realizing its neo-militarist ambition.

The DPRK's possession of nuclear weapons constitutes the legitimate and righteous exercise of its sovereignty that goes in strict conformity with the self-defensive right stipulated in the UN Charter. So, any denial of it means a denial of the truth and an open expression of hostility aimed at confrontation with the DPRK.

Immutable is our judgment and stand that our possession of nuclear weapons is the most powerful guarantee for ensuring our national sovereign rights.

G7 insists on the "denuclearization" of the DPRK, devoid of any significance and justification. Such unrealistic act based on a double standard only highlights its position as an alienated minority political group which has lost its existence value.

It is the undeniable present reality that the cause of ever-decreasing security safeguards in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region lies in the U.S. and Western countries' reckless military adventurism and exclusive bloc-expansion policy.

The only way for ensuring peace and stability on the Korean peninsula is to respect the constitutional position of the DPRK, rather than advocate the "denuclearization" which is impossible theoretically and practically.

Denial of reality only means an admission of failure.

The position of the DPRK as a nuclear weapons state, which has existed in disregard of the Western world's rhetorical denial, will be as ever recorded as a typical proof of the G7's strategic failure. -0-