Seoul, Dec 19 : North Korea has slammed a recent G7 statement that called on the country to abandon all its banned weapons and refrain from provocative actions.
In an article uploaded onto its website on Saturday, the North’s Foreign Ministry said such “remarks constitute an aggressive violation of sovereignty, which tries to deny the exercise of its rights by a sovereign nation, as well as foreign interference and an intolerable act of provocation”, reports Yonhap News Agency.
In a chair’s statement released after the G7 Foreign and Development Ministers’ meeting, the member nations renewed a call on the North to “refrain from provocative actions”.They also urged the North to “engage in a diplomatic process with the explicit goal of complete, verifiable and irreversible abandonment” of all its unlawful weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programs banned under UN Security Council resolutions.”Rather than fomenting distrust and confrontation, the G7 should focus more on its original mission of addressing their economic issues,” the North said.ksk/
N.Korea attacks G7 for urging the abandonment nuke weapons
The G7 Foreign and Development Ministers meeting was concluded by a statement from the chair, in which the members reiterated their call for the North not to engage in provocative acts. The North was also asked to engage in a diplomatic dialogue with the goal of “complete, verifiable, and irreversible abandonment of all illegal weapons of mass destruction” and its ballistic missile program that were banned by UN Security Council resolutions.
The North stated that the G7 shouldn’t be used to foment distrust or confrontation but should instead focus on the original purpose of the G7, which is to address their economic problems.
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