North Korean Ambassador to China Ji Jae-ryong said Tuesday that his country has no interest in reopening talks with the United States on its nuclear weapons program, boasting that Pyongyang is a "nuclear weapons state."
In a rare press conference at the North Korean Embassy in Beijing, Ji also called on South Korea and the U.S. to halt their annual joint military drills on the Korean Peninsula in the coming weeks.
"The DPRK (North Korea) is not interested at all in dialogue to discuss its nuclear program," Ji said. North Korea is "a nuclear weapons state both in name and in reality."
The DPRK is the acronym of North Korea's official name -- the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
North Korea is also capable of mounting a miniaturized nuclear warhead on a missile, he said. (Yonhap)