North Korean chief Kim Jong-un speaks at an occasion commemorating the eightieth anniversary of the founding of the Employees’ Celebration of Korea on Oct. 9, 2025. (KCNA/Yonhap)
Concerning the joint reality sheet on the agreements reached throughout South Korea’s most up-to-date summit with the US, which explicitly mentions the denuclearization of North Korea as a standard aim, North Korea protested it as proof that the “confrontational intention of the US and the ROK to stay hostile in the direction of the DPRK” has been confirmed because the official coverage of Seoul and Washington.
In a commentary printed on Tuesday, the state-run Korean Central Information Company lashed out at newly adopted agreements between South Korea and the US, declaring that they revealed “the true colours of the confrontational will of the US and the ROK to stay hostile in the direction of the DPRK to the top and predicts the way forward for the US-ROK alliance that may get extra harmful and warns prematurely the regional safety state of affairs that may grow to be extra unstable owing to it.”
DPRK is brief for Democratic Individuals’s Republic of Korea, the official identify of North Korea. ROK refers to South Korea’s formal identify, the Republic of Korea.
North Korea additionally declared that it might “take extra justified and practical countermeasures.”
Pyongyang protested Seoul and Washington’s utilization of the phrase “full denuclearization of the Democratic Individuals’s Republic of Korea,” as successfully “denying the entity and the existence of the DPRK.”
The inclusion of a pledge to work collectively to implement the 2018 joint assertion that the US and North Korea reached on the summit in Singapore additionally elicited fury from Pyongyang.
“The US is speaking in regards to the implementation of the previous DPRK-US settlement which has been scrapped and nullified by the US itself. That is the peak of shamelessness and the mind-set of Yankees that has made self-conceit their inveterate behavior,” it stated.
Concerning the US granting authorization to South Korea to assemble nuclear-powered submarines, North Korea known as it “a severe growth that destabilizes the army safety state of affairs within the Asia-Pacific area past the Korean Peninsula and causes the state of affairs of inconceivable nuclear management within the international sphere.”
“The ROK’s possession of nuclear submarine is a strategic transfer for ‘its personal nuclear weaponization’ and that is sure to trigger a ‘nuclear domino phenomenon’ within the area and spark a sizzling arms race,” North Korea continued.
In response, South Korea’s presidential workplace issued a press release reiterating its typical stance.
“The administration has no hostile intentions relating to the North, and can proceed to work persistently towards restoring mutual belief and assuaging inter-Korean tensions,” the workplace stated.
Consultants famous that the assertion was launched within the type of a commentary by a state-run information organ slightly than underneath the identify of a high-ranking authorities official, in an obvious moderation of tenor.
“North Korea has decided the uncertainty about how the phrases of US-South Korea agreements can be carried out, and has provided the lowest-level response,” assessed Hong Min, a senior researcher for the Korea Institute for Nationwide Unification.
“With out ruling out the potential for talks with the US, North Korea has clarified that revising the US’ stance on denuclearization is without doubt one of the stipulations for resuming dialogue,” Hong stated.
By Park Min-hee, senior workers author; Shin Hyeong-cheol, workers reporter
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