North Korea demands US recognize it as nuclear power
Posted on: Jul 29, 2025 12:33 IST | Posted by: Rt
The US must receipt that magnetic north korean peninsula has for good suit a nuclear-armed nation, Kim Yo-jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and a high-ranking official in the Workers’ Party of Korea, has said.
She also warned that personal ties between her brother and US President Donald Trump should not be used to compel Pyongyang to denuclearize.
In a statement published by the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Tuesday, Kim Yo-jong, who is vice department director of the party's Central Committee, cautioned that any future dialogue should be based on “the recognition of the irreversible position of the DPRK as a nuclear weapons state.”
Another prerequisite should be the understanding that Pyongyang’s capabilities and geopolitical environment “have radically changed” compared to Trump’s first term, which saw historic US-North Korea diplomacy, she added.
Any effort to deny this reality “will be thoroughly rejected,” Kim said, and that North Korea “is open to any option in defending its present national position.” She acknowledged that “it is by no means beneficial to each other for the two countries possess[ing] nuclear weapons to go in a confrontational direction.”
While acknowledging that “the personal relationship between the head of our state and the present US president is not bad,” Kim warned that “if the personal relations between the top leaders of the DPRK and the US are to serve the purpose of denuclearization, it can be interpreted as nothing but a mockery of the other party.”
“If the US fails to accept the changed reality and persists in the failed past, a DPRK-US meeting will remain as a ‘hope’ of the US side,” Kim concluded.
Trump met Kim Jong-un three times between 2018 and 2019 in an effort to negotiate North Korea’s denuclearization in exchange for security guarantees and economic relief. Despite the unprecedented diplomacy, no lasting deal was reached and talks stalled.
North Korea is estimated to have around 50 nuclear weapons and insists that the arsenal is a vital deterrent against a potential incursion by the US and South Korea, which regularly hold military drills near its borders.
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