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Gavin Blackburn

Kim Yo Jong mocks Western calls to denuclearise North Korea as a 'daydream'

The powerful sister of North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un has mocked Washington and its Asian allies for what she called their "daydream" of denuclearising the North, insisting that the country will never give up its nuclear weapons programme.

The statement by Kim Yo-jong, one of the country's top foreign policy officials, was in response to a meeting last week between top diplomats of the US, South Korea and Japan where they reaffirmed their commitment to push for the Pyongyang's denuclearisation.

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