A commentary by the state news agency KCNA dismissed South Korean President Lee Jae Myun’s plans for Pyongyang’s nuclear disarmament and called him “a hypocrite gripped by denuclearization paranoia.”

The president’s remarks came after meeting a few days ago in Washington with US President Donald Trump.

“President Trump and I have agreed to work closely together to establish peace and achieve the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula,” Lee said at the time, noting that both will respond firmly “to North Korean provocations.”

The KCNA asserted that the DPRK’s possession of nuclear weapons is “an inevitable option that accurately reflects the external hostile threat.”

To change our nuclear policy, permanently enshrined in the supreme law and the basic law of the state (…), it is necessary to change the world and the political and military environment on the Korean Peninsula, it emphasized.

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