North Korea says US must accept its status as a nuclear weapons state | News

North Korean leader’s powerful sister says talks aimed at denuclearisation would be interpreted as a ‘mockery’.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s influential sister has called on the United States to accept North Korea’s “irreversible” status as a nuclear weapons state, warning that dialogue will never lead to its denuclearisation.

In a statement carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency on Tuesday, Kim Yo Jong said a recognition that Pyongyang’s capabilities and the…