“If the International Atomic Energy Agency wants to avoid international criticism” that it acts “as a puppet of the US,” it would do well to “dedicate itself to addressing the difficulties facing the international community,” said a spokesman for Pyongyang’s Ministry of Nuclear Energy Industry. .
North Korea today denounced the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), part of the UN system, saying it was participating in the US-led pressure campaign against it and that it had “cooked up” a decision on its programs to develop nuclear weapons and policies. nuclear power facilities, calling it a “sneaky instrument” of Washington.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Nuclear Energy Industry slammed a press release that released a decision adopted Friday during the IAEA’s general assembly demanding North Korea curtail its nuclear programs.
In the text, the decision is characterized as the “result of a conspiracy” by the US and its allies, while North Korea’s position that the nuclear power regime it has acquired is “irreversible” is repeated.
This “hoax” by the “hostile powers” does nothing more than “reveal their treacherous intentions to cover up their criminal actions that seriously threaten the international nuclear non-proliferation system” and “justify their hostile policy” towards of Pyongyang, the press release added, according to North Korea’s official KCNA news agency.
The ministry’s representative, who has not been named, also personally accused IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi of “taking a leading role in creating an atmosphere of pressure” on North Korea by “spreading the myth” that a new nuclear weapon test is imminent by North Korea. Pyongyang.
Mr Grossi warned in 2022 that the reclusive country could resume nuclear weapons tests, which were suspended in 2017.
“If the IAEA wants to avoid international criticism” that it acts “as a puppet of the US”, it would do well to “dedicate itself to addressing the difficulties faced by the international community”, according to the spokesman, who referred to what he described as a proliferation of nuclear weapons by the US and the dumping of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean from the damaged nuclear plant in Fukushima, Japan.
The IAEA has had no access to North Korea since Pyongyang expelled its inspectors in 2009 and then resumed nuclear weapons tests.
Source :Skai
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