SEOUL: North Korea will keep its nuclear weapons “forever”, its foreign minister vowed on Thursday (Sep 24), dismissing the South Korean president’s renewed calls for a denuclearised Korean Peninsula.
Pyongyang has legally enshrined its status as a nuclear-armed state, with its leadership repeatedly declaring the country’s atomic arsenal permanent and irreversible.
The foreign minister’s remarks came a day after South Korean President Lee Jae Myung told the United Nations General Assembly he wanted to halt further growth in Pyongyang’s weapons capabilities and eventually achieve a Korean Peninsula “free from nuclear weapons”.
“I reaffirm and…
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