Kim Yo Jong Reaffirms 'Impossible' Stance on G7 Denuclearization Call

Kim Yo Jong, director of the North Korean Workers' Party's Propaganda and Agitation Department, dismissed denuclearization demands from the Group of Seven (G7) summit as "anachronistic," reiterating Pyongyang's commitment to nuclear armament. In a statement released via the Korean Central News Agency on Wednesday, Kim asserted, "The United States and other Western countries have repeatedly repeated the anachronistic demand for 'denuclearization' while indiscriminately spewing groundless political accusations against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea."

She further stated, "The G7, the main culprit destroying world peace and security and the international nuclear non-proliferation regime, has neither the qualification to discuss DPRK's sovereign choice nor the right to defy it." Defining nuclear armament as a "sovereign choice," she definitively declared, "'Denuclearization' is an unbreachable line that can never be crossed."

Responding to this, Jang Eun-jeong, deputy spokesperson for the Ministry of Unification, characterized Kim Yo Jong's statement during a briefing at the Government Complex Seoul on Thursday as a "reaffirmation of its existing position of denuclearization being impossible," assessing it not as a new development but a repetition of existing stances. She reiterated, "The government remains unchanged in its position to draw out mutually acceptable, phased, and achievable measures based on reality to realize a denuclearized Korean Peninsula."