US, South Korea, Japan call for ‘complete denuclearisation’ of North Korea

Pyongyang’s government has declared its atomic arsenal to be permanent and irreversible.Pyongyang denounced a joint statement on Saturday by a group of nations monitoring sanctions implementation against it, pledging that “the stereotyped sanctions racket of the US and the West can neither influence the position of the DPRK (North Korea) as a nuclear weapons state.”