Kim Yo Jong, Photo: Reuters
The sister and deputy of North Korean President Kim Jong Un, Kim Yo Jong, said today that American pressure on the denuclearization of Pyongyang is an “anachronistic dream”, and that it will expand its arsenal of these weapons despite Washington’s threats.
“The US position has no legally binding force and no one will be bound by US unilateral rhetoric,” said Kim, director of the General Affairs Directorate of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea.
She dismissed as “false information” the US announcement that US President Donald Trump and China’s Xi Jinping confirmed their shared goal of denuclearizing North Korea at a summit in Beijing last month.
“Some officials in the US have failed to wake up from their escapist and anachronistic slumber,” Kim Yo Jong said.
She accused the US and South Korea of advocating “continuous accumulation of weapons” and assessed that her brother’s pressure on “constant strengthening of the deterrence of nuclear war for self-defense is an irreversible final conclusion that must be implemented unconditionally.”
North Korea has been focusing on expanding its nuclear arsenal since diplomatic talks on the subject between Pyongyang and Washington collapsed in 2019.
Experts claim that the North Korean leader wants international recognition of the so-called nuclear state so that he can demand the lifting of international economic sanctions against North Korea.
Kim Jong Un recently stated that North Korea will strengthen the country’s nuclear forces at an “exponential rate”.
The North Korean media reported today that Kim Jong Un visited a weapons factory the previous day and called for the country’s missile production capacity to be increased by 2.5 times, as part of a five-year plan.
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