Press Statement of Kim Yo Jong, Department Director of C.C., WPK

 Pyongyang, July 27 (KCNA) -- Kim Yo Jong, department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, issued the following press statement on July 27:
The ASEAN Regional Forum foreign ministers' meeting, recently held in the Philippines, made public a poor chair's statement distorting the essence of the situation in the Korean peninsula and calling for "complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula".
I express strong dissatisfaction with the forum's undisguised hostile attitude of going along with the U.S. trumpeting about "denuclearization", ignoring the constitution of the DPRK and running counter to it, and resolutely denounce and reject this with the sternest rhetorical expression.
Such an act of the U.S. and its vassal forces to change the status of the DPRK as a nuclear weapons state, permanently settled by its state constitution, only with a piece of document without any legal restraint is nothing but a foolish attempt.
If the ASEAN Regional Forum is to fulfill its mission as a consultative body truly promoting regional peace and security, it should guard against an opportunity and space of being misused as a hired mouthpiece for the U.S.
It is a failure in strategic thinking and logic and a manifestation of a stupid and foolish wild dream to still adhere to the "denuclearization of the Korean peninsula" which had already lost its meaning conceptually and practically.
There will never be a change in the existing situation according to rhetoric or "hope" of any outside force.
The present geopolitical crisis being created by the U.S. and its vassal forces proves once again that national security is an absolutely important matter that can never be entrusted to others.
Resolute and clear is the DPRK's stand that nuclear deterrence is the ultimate shield for national sovereignty and the supreme guarantee for defending sovereignty.
Whatever others may say, the position and significance of existence of the DPRK as a responsible nuclear weapons state to keep the balance of strength and ensure the geopolitical security in and over the Korean peninsula are final and irreversible.
The DPRK's nuclear capability will be updated steadily without a momentary stagnation. -0-