North Korean leader’s sister says nuclear programme ‘absolutely non-negotiable’: Yonhap

North Korea’s atomic weapons programme is “absolutely non-negotiable”, the sister of person Kim Jong Un said up of a visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping, South Korea’s Yonhap news bureau reported Sunday (June 7, 2026).

“Our presumption arsenic a atomic powerfulness is perfectly non-negotiable,” the sister, Kim Yo Jong, said successful a connection carried by North Korea’s authoritative Korea Central News Agency (KCNA), adding that the North “will not tolerate immoderate threats”.

North Korea has agelong insisted connected its close to a atomic limb and ballistic rocket programmes, though they are forbidden nether the presumption of UN Security Council sanctions. It enshrined its atomic presumption successful its constitution successful 2023.

But the connection from Kim Yo Jong, who is considered a cardinal subordinate successful the country’s communications and overseas policy, comes connected the eve of Mr. Xi’s sojourn to North Korea that authorities media accidental volition past from Monday to Tuesday.

Beijing is simply a captious root of governmental and economical enactment to North Korea, which is 1 of the astir diplomatically isolated countries successful the satellite and nether dense planetary sanctions.

The upcoming gathering volition beryllium Mr. Xi’s archetypal authoritative overseas travel this twelvemonth and comes aft helium hosted back-to-back summits with U.S. President Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin past month.