North Korea denounced a resolution by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) against Pyongyang’s nuclear program, calling it a “conspiracy between the US and its followers.” The United Nation’s nuclear watchdog adopted a resolution on Friday, urging North Korea to suspend its nuclear weapons program and heed the UN Security Council’s resolutions.

“We vehemently denounce and reject the abnormal behavior of the IAEA which has been completely reduced to a reptile organization that serves the US away from its elementary mission as an international organization to maintain impartiality,” a spokesperson for the North’s nuclear power ministry said in a press statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.

Stressing that North Korea withdrew from the nuclear agency in 1994, he said the IAEA has “neither qualifications nor justification to say this or that” over the North’s exercise of sovereignty.

“As long as tyrannical nuclear weapons of the US and imperialist aggression forces exist on this land, the DPRK’s position as a nuclear weapons state will remain unchanged and the DPRK will never tolerate the hostile forces’ acts of infringing upon its sovereignty,” he added.

Source: Qatar News Agency