North Korea tells UN: We will never give up nuclear program

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -North Korea will never give up its nuclear program, the country's Vice Foreign Minister Kim Son Gyong told the United Nations General Assembly on Monday, describing it as "tantamount to demanding it to surrender sovereignty and right to existence."

It was the first time North Korea had dispatched an official from Pyongyang to address the annual gathering of world leaders for the General Assembly since the country's foreign minister traveled to New York in 2018.

(Reporting by Michelle Nichols, editing by Maiya Keidan)