In a statement reproduced today by the state news agency KCNA, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs categorically rejected a recent joint statement by the leaders of the member countries of this mechanism (the US, Japan, Australia and India).

The document questions the DPRK’s nuclear program and missile launches and insists on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, but only targeting Pyongyang, trying to justify its hostile policy against the nation, as the Foreign Ministry pointed out

The Quad is a result of the U.S. Cold War mentality (…), it has become a factor that deepens mistrust and antagonism among countries in the Asia-Pacific region and causes international instability, the DPRK stressed.

Under the rhetoric of strengthening collaboration in the fields of climate change, food security and public health, this mechanism hides the US designs of unipolar hegemony, it denounced.

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