North Korean President Kim Jong Un's sister and deputy, Kim Yo Jong, said today that US pressure on Pyongyang to denuclearize is an "anachronistic dream" and that it will expand its arsenal of these weapons despite Washington's threats.
"The US position has no legally binding force and no one will be bound by the US's unilateral rhetoric," said Kim, director of the General Affairs Directorate of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea.
She dismissed as "fake information" a US statement that US President Donald Trump and China's Xi Jinping reaffirmed their shared goal of denuclearizing North Korea at a summit in Beijing last month.
"Some officials in the US have failed to wake up from their escapist and anachronistic dream," Kim Yo Jong said.
She accused the US and South Korea of advocating for "continuous arms buildup" and said her brother's pressure to "continually strengthen deterrence against nuclear war for the sake of self-defense - an irreversible final conclusion that must be unconditionally implemented."
North Korea has been focusing on expanding its nuclear arsenal since diplomatic talks on the subject between Pyongyang and Washington collapsed in 2019.
Experts claim that the North Korean leader wants international recognition of the so-called nuclear state so that he can demand the lifting of international economic sanctions on North Korea.
Kim Jong Un recently stated that North Korea would strengthen the country's nuclear forces "at an exponential rate."
North Korean media reported today that Kim Jong Un visited a weapons factory the previous day and called for the country's missile production capacity to be increased 2,5 times, as part of a five-year plan.
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