Kim Yo Jong: "Complete Denuclearization Is Familiar Nonsense"... Reacts to IAEA Warning

[Financial News] Kim Yo Jong, Director of the General Affairs Department of the Workers' Party of Korea, reiterated the legitimacy of North Korea's nuclear possession in response to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)'s call for denuclearization, stating, "The status of a nuclear power cannot be reversed by anything."
According to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on the 17th, Director Kim reacted to the recent call for "complete, verifiable, and irreversible denuclearization" (CVID) at the 70th IAEA General Conference, pointing out that North Korea is violating United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolutions, calling it "familiar nonsense."
Regarding the IAEA's criticism of North Korea's nuclear program, Director Kim asserted, "It is merely noise that is neither surprising nor new, something we hear all the time, like the sound ringing day and night on an answering machine around this time every year," adding, "The people sitting around making noise trying to change our country's current status must realize clearly how pathetic, delusional, and futile their efforts are."
She continued, "No matter how much the International Atomic Energy Agency and the West periodically hold meetings and passionately call for denuclearization according to a fixed script, they cannot have any influence on our will and ability to take all necessary measures to safeguard the nation's supreme interests."
At the same time, she emphasized, "The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)'s status as a nuclear power is absolute and cannot be reversed by anything," adding, "No matter how much hostile forces rhetorically deny it, the reality that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)'s nuclear status is permanently entrenched physically and legally cannot be changed in the slightest."
Meanwhile, at the IAEA General Conference that opened on the 14th, South Korea and European countries pointed out that North Korea's nuclear program poses a serious threat to the international non-proliferation regime and urged North Korea to fulfill its international obligations, such as United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolutions, and to pursue complete denuclearization. The IAEA also released its annual report detailing the expansion of North Korea's uranium enrichment capabilities and the status of reactor operations.
The IAEA recently estimated that North Korea's new uranium enrichment facility in Nyongbyon has constructed up to 28 sets of centrifuge cascades. This is the largest scale among the existing No. 1 Enrichment Facility in Nyongbyon and the nuclear facilities in the Kangson area. A cascade is a bundle of centrifuges used for nuclear enrichment. It is an enrichment facility that connects multiple centrifuges to gradually increase uranium concentration. North Korea has claimed to have doubled its enrichment capacity over the past five years.
The IAEA expressed serious concern, stating that North Korea's expansion of enrichment capabilities and further development of its nuclear program constitute a clear violation of relevant United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolutions.


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