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¡± ¡ª the term it often employs for its nuclear program ¡ª 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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