In a speech before the United Nations General Assembly, a senior North Korean official hammered home Pyongyang's stance of never giving up its nuclear weapons, the first such address since 2018 and part of a flurry of diplomatic chess moves by Pyongyang in recent weeks.
In the speech Monday, Vice Foreign Minister Kim Son Gyong said that relinquishing its “war deterrent” — the term it often employs for its nuclear program — would be “tantamount to demanding it to surrender (its) sovereignty and right to existence.”
"We will never give up nuclear, which is our state law, national policy and sovereign power as well as the right to existence,” Kim said. “Under any circumstances, we will never walk away from this position.”
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