North Korea vows never to abandon nuclear weapons

North Korea says denuclearization will “never happen forever” after member states of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue reaffirmed their commitment to the North’s complete nuclear disarmament.

The statement came from a spokesperson at Pyongyang’s foreign ministry in an interview format with the state-run Korean media.

The spokesperson said talk of denuclearization over the regime’s exercise of its sovereign rights proves that “that QUAD is nothing but a political and diplomatic tool serving the U.S. strategy for unipolar domination.”

In a joint statement following a foreign ministers’ meeting in New Delhi Tuesday, the Quad nations — the U.S., Australia, Japan, and India — condemned the North’s “unlawful development” of ballistic missiles and weapons of mass destruction.

Without mentioning China, the Quad expressed their strong opposition to “destabilizing or unilateral actions” that threaten peace and stability in the East China Sea and the South China Sea.

The North, in response, firmly denounced and rejected the U.S.-led Quad’s hostility against the regime and other countries in the region, and demanded that it stop seeking confrontation that serves to destroy regional peace and stability.

By Vafa Guliyeva