This file photo, captured from the Facebook page of the Russian Embassy in Pyongyang on October 2, 2019, shows Jo Chol-su (center). (Its resale and archiving is prohibited)
SEOUL, March 22 (Yonhap) — North Korea issued a strong warning Tuesday against the U.S. demand for complete denuclearization of the North, saying the regime will treat it as a “declaration of war.”
Jo Chol-su, director general of the international organization department at the North Korean Foreign Ministry, made the comments in a statement released after the United States requested a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution against missile launches. North Koreans and human rights abuses, at a meeting in New York on Monday (local time).
US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield urged UNSC member countries to join the move and seek “complete, verifiable and irreversible,” or CVID, denuclearization from Pyongyang.
In a statement to the North’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), Jo said the US representative to the UN has once again spewed out a litany of rhetoric about outdated CVID and the DD situation. H H. North Koreans.
Jo said “all forces” should keep in mind that if they try to apply CVID on North Korea, the move will be responded to resolutely, according to North Korea’s law on nuclear force policy.
The official said that the US condemnation of the North Korean regime, on the UN stage, only reveals to the world the failure of “American-style diplomacy.”
Jo added that pressure on Pyongyang to dismantle its nuclear power means precisely a declaration of war.
The UNSC held 10 rounds of meetings, in 2022, to discuss North Korean ballistic missile launches, but failed to come up with a formal document due to opposition from China and Russia, two of the veto-wielding permanent members.
The screenshot shows US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield answering questions during a briefing on May 3, 2022 (local time) in New York. (Its resale and archiving is prohibited)
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