Kim Yo Jong rejected an IAEA resolution adopted 17 September at the 70th General Conference in Vienna, Yonhap reported from Seoul on 19 September. A foreign ministry spokesperson, in KCNA texts carried by Al Jazeera and Yonhap, said the text has no effect on North Korea's claimed nuclear-weapons-state status, which the ministry said is fixed in supreme law. Kim accused the agency of double standards. Those status claims are Pyongyang's; they are not independently verified here.
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No effect, says the ministry
Citing KCNA texts carried by Al Jazeera and Yonhap, North Korea's Foreign Ministry dismissed an International Atomic Energy Agency resolution criticising its nuclear-weapons programme. A spokesperson said a resolution cooked up by the United States and the West has no effect on the country's position as a nuclear-weapon state, which the ministry said is guaranteed by its nuclear deterrent and irreversibly fixed in supreme law. Yonhap quotes the same deterrent-and-supreme-law line.[1], [2]
Vienna, 17 September
Yonhap, dated 19 September from Seoul, says the IAEA adopted the text on 17 September at its 70th General Conference. Al Jazeera places the ministry dismissal on Saturday. Yonhap reported that the resolution reaffirmed that North Korea cannot have the status of a nuclear-weapon state under the NPT; that is the agency's line in Yonhap's account, not a new inspection finding on this card.[1], [2]
Double standards, unverified
Kim Yo Jong, in Al Jazeera's account, accused the watchdog of ignoring what she called US nuclear-proliferation activities and South Korea's nuclear submarine introduction plan while forcing through a resolution against North Korea's self-defensive nuclear work. Yonhap says she called it an anti-DPRK text that takes issue with self-defensive nuclear activities. Independent verification of those claims is unavailable. This card stays inside the desk news cards' figures and dated stamps; it does not claim a second field census or an independent lab rerun. The reader sees the publisher's own-page development together with the second publisher's headline or lede on the same event.[1], [2]
