Kim Yo-jong, the deputy director of the Workers' Party and sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, recently responded to the confirmed wills of the foreign ministers of South Korea, the United States, and Japan regarding North Korea's denuclearization, calling it "the most hostile act."
The deputy director stated on the 8th that the "outdated obsession with 'denuclearization' by the South Korea-U.S.-Japan alliance will have no influence on our nation" during a speech she delivered, according to Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) which reported on the 9th.
On the 3rd, the deputy director criticized the wills regarding North Korea's denuclearization contained in the joint statement from the South Korea-U.S.-Japan foreign ministers' meeting held in conjunction with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) foreign ministers' meeting, saying it is "nothing but an impractical delusion," and added, "To still be wandering in the failed dreams of the past, while going around boasting about 'complete denuclearization,' shows the level of their political discernment is outdated and vulgar.**
He mocked, saying, "If you truly believe in it and sing loudly about 'denuclearization,' then you will hear nothing but that something is lacking."
The deputy director asserted that North Korea's "status as a nuclear power" is "the result of an inevitable choice that accurately reflects external hostile threats and the changes in the global security dynamics of the present and future," stating, "It will not change regardless of who denies it."
She pointed out that "publicly talking about nuclear abandonment in front of us, as well as attempting to revive the already obsolete 'denuclearization' concept by wrapping it in various covers, is itself the most hostile act that denies the sovereignty of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and forces a disregard for the constitution and institutions."
The deputy director warned, "If the U.S. and its followers continue to stubbornly cling to the outdated concept of 'denuclearization' while shouting about someone's 'threats,' it will only lay an unlimited justification and rationale for our efforts to build the strongest self-defensive nuclear capabilities."
The deputy director's speech comes more than a month after she revealed on the 3rd of last month that they would consider options to increase strategic-level provocative actions during the entry of the U.S. aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson into Busan.