The statement said:

With deep interest we heard the New Year Address of respected Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un carrying the profound policies.

In the New Year Address, he clarified the tasks for achieving fresh victory in the building of a powerful socialist country with the historic victory won in the building of state nuclear force as a springboard for fresh progress.

He expressed the bold decision to have in-depth discussion on the north-south relations and open the way for their improvement by the Koreans themselves without foreign interference.

We demand that the south Korean authorities no longer turn down the nation's desire for improved north-south relations and join in the outsiders' moves fostering the national division.

We are confident that the entire Korean nation will thwart the moves of the separatist forces and realize the independent reunification of the country by its united efforts and thus contribute to ensuring the regional and global peace.

Kim Jong Un in the New Year Address solemnly declared that the DPRK, as a peace-loving responsible nuclear power, would neither have recourse to nuclear weapons unless the hostile forces of aggression violate its sovereignty and interests nor threaten any other country or region by means of nuclear weapons.

We fully support his line of independent reunification and foreign policy stand.