A dismantling of North Korea's nuclear weapons will never become a reality, claims Kim Yo-Jong in a statement published by the state-controlled news agency KCNA.
"If someone openly talks about dismantling the nuclear weapons, they are committing the most hostile act: denying North Korea's sovereignty", she says.
According to Kim Jong-Un's younger sister, all talk about dismantling justifies North Korea's striving to build "the strongest nuclear power for self-defense" even more.
This is Kim Yo-Jong's second statement in just over a month. In March, she condemned the USA after one of the American fleet's aircraft carriers visited the South Korean port city of Busan – and accused President Donald Trump of continuing the previous government's "hostile policy".
Trump became the first sitting American president to meet a North Korean leader when he, in 2018, during his first term, met Kim Jong-Un in Singapore. But the leaders' second meeting, in Vietnam's capital Hanoi, collapsed after disagreements regarding the US-led sanctions against the closed-off North Korea.
Since then, North Korea has increased the pace in its pursuit of expanding its nuclear arsenal.
