North Korea says the IAEA has no moral right to interfere in the country’s internal affairs.

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North Korean officials said Monday that the country’s status as a nuclear-weapon state has become irreversible. “The status of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea as a nuclear-weapon state, which has been permanently specified in the supreme and basic law of the state, has become irreversible”, North Korea’s Permanent Mission to the UN said in a press release, according to the Korean Central News Agency.

The IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) has no legal right or moral justification to interfere in what North Korea considers an internal matter, the mission’s statement said.

The United States, South Korea, and Japan are conducting a joint military exercise called “Freedom Edge 25” on Jeju Island, South Korea, coinciding with the various anti-US messages issued by North Korea.