SEOUL, May 7 (Reuters) – North Korea is not bound to any treaty on non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, state media KCNA reported on Thursday.
Kim Song, permanent representative of North Korea to the United Nations, said in a statement the U.S. and some countries are “tarnishing the atmosphere” at the 11th NPT review conference held at UN headquarters, bringing up the issue of North Korea’s nuclear weapons, KCNA said.
The position of North Korea as a nuclear weapons state “does not change in accordance with rhetorical assertion or unilateral desire of outsiders,” Kim said.
(Reporting by Heejin Kim; Editing by Chris Reese)
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