SEOUL: North Korea's status as a nuclear power is "final and irreversible," Pyongyang's foreign minister said Friday, slamming a G7 call for Kim Jong Un to give up his nukes entirely.

Pyongyang has conducted another record-breaking string of sanctions-defying launches this year, including test-firing the country's first solid-fuel ballistic missile this month — a key technical breakthrough for Kim's military.

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