Kim Yo-jong says North Korea's nuclear status is irreversible, rejects IAEA denuclearization call

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

39% : Kim dismissed remarks raised during the 70th session of the IAEA General Conference about North Korea's violations of United Nations Security Council resolutions and calls for its denuclearization as "familiar silly talk," according to a statement released through the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) the same day.
37% : The countries said North Korea's nuclear program poses a serious threat to the international nonproliferation regime and called on Pyongyang to fulfill its international obligations, including those under UN Security Council resolutions, and pursue complete denuclearization.
36% : North Korea's status as a nuclear weapons state "cannot be reversed by anything," Kim Yo-jong, director of the General Affairs Department of the Workers' Party and sister of North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un, said Thursday as she rejected the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)'s denuclearization call.

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