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TOKYO: The Foreign Minister of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Choe Son Hui, denounced the “vicious accusations” of G7 foreign ministers against his country exercising “its lawful sovereignty with their extremely interfering and disturbing” official statement. 

In an official Korean Central News Agency statement on April 21, Choe Son Hui said: “The G7 does not have the authority or qualifications to comment on the exercise of sovereignty and state status of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. The G7, which is nothing more than a closed interest group of a handful of nations, does not represent the justice of the international community, but is merely a political tool that submits to the guarantee of the hegemonic position of the United States.”

The statement explained that “the self-defense strengthening measures taken by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea up to now have dealt with the unstable security environment brought about by the reckless and provocative military actions of the United States and its allies, and deal with threats. It is a legitimate exercise of sovereignty to deter, protect national sovereignty and territorial integrity, and stably control and manage the situation on the Korean Peninsula.”

The North Korean minister pledged her country would eliminate the military threat posed by the United States and its hostile allied forces. “We will remain a sovereign nation until the hostile surrounding environment that impedes the independent existence and development of the nation is fundamentally eliminated.”

North Korea considers its actions to be based on all lawful rights granted to the status as a nuclear-armed state established with the actual existence of a nuclear deterrent and adopted by the consensus of all the Korean people. The minister said this status was established as national law in the National Nuclear Arms Policy Act.

The North Korean position shows a big gap with the G7 as Pyongyang rejects the American and Japanese demands of “complete and irreversible renunciation of nuclear weapons” and says that the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) “denies us” the status of a nuclear-weapon state. 

“Let me make it clear that the essence of our possession of nuclear weapons lies in the fact that we were forced to possess them not to be recognized by other countries but to protect ourselves from the threat of the United States.”

The United States and the West have no say in our nuclear power status, and nothing they say will change our status as a global nuclear power which is final and irreversible.,” the North Korean foreign minister stressed.