North Korea dismisses UN nuclear watchdog resolution
The country rebukes the UN atomic agency’s ‘double standards’ and says nuclear status is ‘irreversible’.
The North Korean Foreign Ministry has dismissed a resolution by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that criticises Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons programme.
The ministry said on Saturday that its status as a nuclear power is irreversible and backed by its nuclear deterrent, according to a statement released by the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
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In a separate statement to KCNA, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s sister, Kim Yo Jong, accused the nuclear watchdog of double standards.
The IAEA’s “biased viewpoint and double standards” are “the fundamental factor causing the collapse of the international nuclear non-proliferation system”, she said.
Kim Yo Jong said the UN nuclear watchdog had turned a blind eye to the “blatant nuclear proliferation activities” of the United States and South Korea’s “nuclear submarine introduction plan”, while the agency forcibly adopted a resolution against North Korea’s “self-defensive and legitimate nuclear activities”.
The North Korean Foreign Ministry also accused “hostile forces” of seeking to bring an end to the country’s nuclear programme during this week’s general conference of the IAEA.
“Pitifully, the ‘resolution’ cooked up by the US and the West has no effect on the DPRK’s position as a nuclear weapons state,” a foreign ministry spokesperson said, referring to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, its official name.
The state media also reported that Kim Jong Un carried out a three-day inspection tour of major munitions factories this week.
Analysts say North Korea has been overhauling its military with Russian help since the two countries signed a mutual defence treaty in 2024. They say combat experience gained by Pyongyang’s troops deployed to the war in Ukraine has also aided the effort.
Kim Jong Un also gave a lecture to a propaganda workers’ training session in Pyongyang on Friday, KCNA reported, telling attendees modern “ideological warfare” needed to be innovative, creative and aggressive rather than repeating old methods.
Trump’s overtures
While Kim Yo Jong rebuked what she called double standards favouring the US and South Korea, both countries have recently said they want to improve relations with North Korea.
On Friday, South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said that US President Donald Trump wants dialogue with Pyongyang, and Seoul will work to facilitate potential talks.
Trump, seeking to revive the bond he forged with Kim Jong Un in his first term, said last month that he plans to meet the North Korean leader later this year.
The US president said it was important to “get along” with Kim, adding that Pyongyang now had 57 “very powerful” nuclear weapons.
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And what has the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) done about Israel and her nuclear arsenal? 😡😡😡
Nobody has ever presented verifiable evidence of an Israeli nuclear bomb test.
ReplyDeleteVerifiable evidence, not the usual No Need Evidence anti-Israel hatred.
Verifiable evidence from the zionist state's nuclear arsenals?
DeleteHow verifiable do u want, mfer?
But just near in mind, in the hour of need, the yankee WOULD undoubtedly provide one for those mfers.
Just as a deterrence of fart.
Fact - No country has ever built a nuclear arsenal without testing it.
DeleteSimply because a nation's last line of defence cannot be just entrusted to mathematical equations or no-yield simulations.
Fact -no country has ever been able to hide an actual nuclear bomb test.
So it is perfectly reasonable to demand verifiable evidence of an Israeli nuclear bomb test beyond just assuming it is so.
Verifiable evidence, not the usual No Need Evidence anti-Israel hatred
Historical evidence and declassified information strongly indicate that Israel and apartheid South Africa engaged in deep nuclear cooperation, with widespread suspicion and intelligence indications that they jointly conducted a clandestine nuclear test—most notably the 1979 "Vela Incident".
DeleteThe Nuclear Collaboration
Shared Interests: During the 1970s and 1980s, both Israel and South Africa faced international isolation, arms embargoes, and geopolitical pressures.
Resource and Technology Trade: Israel traded military technology, missile development assistance (such as the Jericho and RSA missile programs), and materials like tritium in exchange for South African raw uranium.
Building the Arsenal: Archival research and testimonies indicate that Israel provided crucial expertise aiding South Africa in developing its own nuclear weapon capability (which ultimately built roughly six atomic bombs before dismantling them in 1989–1990).
The Suspected Nuclear Test (The Vela Incident)
The Double Flash: On September 22, 1979, an American Vela satellite detected a characteristic "double flash" of light in the southern Indian Ocean near the Prince Edward Islands (territory of South Africa).
The Joint Test Theory: This flash is widely believed by many intelligence analysts, scientists, and researchers to have been a low-yield clandestine atmospheric nuclear test.
Israeli Involvement: Because Israel has a long-standing policy of nuclear ambiguity and never conducted a nuclear test within its own borders, historians and investigative reports point to South Africa providing the remote testing grounds as part of their mutual military and nuclear cooperation.
mfer, the clearest inevitable evident for the nuclear arsenal for the zionist state IS embedded within that solemn pledge of the The Samson Option (Hebrew: ברירת שמשון).
DeleteOoop… u know fart about that pledge of destructive deterrence!