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Press Statement of DPRK Permanent Mission to UN
Pyongyang, August 11 (KCNA) -- The Permanent Mission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to the United Nations Friday issued the press statement with regard to reckless remarks made by the UN secretary-general against the DPRK at a joint press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Abe held in Japan recently. UN

The statement said:

As witnessed by everybody, the UN secretary-general, at the joint press conference with the Japanese prime minister on August 8 during his visit to Japan, has made reckless remarks saying that "the DPRK can be a normal member of the international community in this region through total denuclearization that is verifiable, irreversible".

It is astonishing to hear what the secretary-general has talked in obscurity at the time when the world supports and welcomes the historic DPRK-U.S. Summit and the Joint Statement in Singapore.

The chief executive of the United Nations cooked up and …

Press Statement of Spokesperson for DPRK Foreign Ministry

Pyongyang, August 9 (KCNA) -- The spokesperson of the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea made public the following press statement on Thursday:

At the first historic DPRK-U.S. summit meeting and talks, the top leaders committed to work together toward putting an end to the extremely hostile relations through confidence building and establishing new DPRK-U.S. relations in favor of the requirements and interests of the peoples of two countries and to make active contribution to peace, security, and prosperity on the Korean Peninsula and over the world.

Whereas we already took such practical denuclearization steps as discontinuing nuclear test and ICBM test fire, followed by dismantling the nuclear test ground since the end of last year, the U.S. insisted on its unilateral demand of "denuclearization first" at the first DPRK-U.S. high-level talks held in Pyongyang in early July.

Nevertheless…