North Korea has criticized the Group of Seven (G-7) economically developed Western democracies after they issued a joint statement calling on Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons, DPA reported.
A spokesman for the North Korean Foreign Ministry called the declaration adopted by G-7 foreign ministers at the end of their meeting in Canada last week a “political provocation“, state news agency KCNA reported.
In the declaration, the G-7 ministers demanded that North Korea “give up all its nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction, as well as its ballistic missile programs, in accordance with all applicable UN Security Council resolutions“, it noted DPA.
In addition to Canada and the United States, the G7 includes Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Japan.
The Foreign Ministry in Pyongyang said that North Korea “will never tolerate encroachments on its sovereignty and internal affairs“.
It also accused the G7 countries of being “the main culprits in the destruction of global peace, security and the international nuclear non-proliferation system“, while emphasizing that the United States is the only country that has ever used nuclear weapons.