The international community will never recognize North Korea as a legitimate nuclear state. This was expressed by Kim Gon, the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Special Envoy for Peace and Security on the Korean Peninsula. Yonhap.
“The international community has steadfastly embraced denuclearization as a common goal for 30 years, it will never be revised. There is no single scenario in which we would reconsider this goal. Even after a million years,” Kim Gun told reporters in Jakarta before meeting with colleagues from the US and Japan.
The talks came amid reports that North Korea may conduct another nuclear test.
US Special Envoy to the DPRK Son Kim said the DPRK’s actions pose “one of the most serious threats to security in the region and beyond”.
Takehiro Funakoshi, Director of Japan’s Foreign Ministry’s Asia and Oceania Department, said the three countries “will respond strongly if a seventh nuclear test is conducted”.
Former North Korean leader Kim Jong-un aforementioned It aims to build the world’s most powerful strategic nuclear forces and have “unprecedented absolute” power to protect the dignity and sovereignty of the North Korean state and people.