NK slams South’s president over denuclearization

North Korea called South Korean President Lee Jae Myung a “hypocrite” on Wednesday over remarks he made about the denuclearization of the peninsula during a visit to the United States this week.

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Since taking office in June, Lee has sought warmer ties with the nuclear-armed North and has vowed to build “military trust” with Pyongyang.

But North Korea has said it has no interest in improving relations with Seoul, a key regional security ally for Washington.

During his Monday visit to the Center for Strategic and International Studies in the American capital, Lee said Seoul and Washington’s alliance would be “upgraded to a global level” when “there is a path for denuclearization, peace and coexistence on the Korean Peninsula”.

Since a failed summit with the United States in 2019, North Korea has repeatedly said it will never give up its nuclear weapons and declared itself an “irreversible” nuclear state.