The country's status as a nuclear power is "definite and irrevocable," Kim Yo-Jong said in a statement carried by the state-run KCNA news agency. Those who hope and believe in nuclear disarmament are "idiots," she continued.
South Korea's Unification Ministry sees Kim Yo-Jong's statement as remarkable, according to an official:
We are following Kim Yo-Jong's statement closely, as it comes at a time when US President Donald Trump has recently expressed his willingness to engage in dialogue with North Korea.
Relations between Washington and Pyongyang have been on hold since a failed meeting in Hanoi in 2019, during Trump's first term.
North Korea is believed to have between 60 and 120 nuclear weapons.
