The rostrum at the military parade marking the 80th anniversary of the founding of North Korea's Workers' Party, held at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang on Oct. 10. To the left of Kim Jong-un, General Secretary of North Korea's Workers' Party, stands Li Qiang, Premier of the China State Council, and to the right stand To Lam, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, and Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of Russia's Security Council. /Courtesy of News1

North Korea called the announcement that denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula was discussed as an agenda item ahead of a China-Korea summit "a pipe dream."

Korean Central News Agency said on the 1st that in a statement released on the 31st, Vice Foreign Minister Pak Myong Ho said, "Even if you drone on about denuclearization a hundred times, a thousand times, ten thousand times, we will patiently show that it is a 'pipe dream' that can never be realized."

Pak said, "A Spokesperson for the South Korean presidential office announced that agenda consultations were held to discuss the issue of realizing denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and peace at the China-Korea (Korea-China) summit," and criticized, "South Korea is trying to bring up the issue of denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula whenever it has a chance."

He added, "South Korea still does not realize that the very act of straining to deny the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's status as a nuclear-weapon state and still mouthing the delusion that it will try to achieve denuclearization only lays bare its own lack of common sense."

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