PYONGYANG – A senior official of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has lashed out at what she called the "unfounded politically-motivated rhetoric" against her country by the Group of Seven, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Thursday.

In a press statement carried by the KCNA, Kim Yo-jong, department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, called the G7 "the chief culprit of destroying global peace and security and the international nuclear non-proliferation regime", saying the group "has neither qualifications to discuss the sovereign option of the DPRK nor right to deny it.”

The United States and other Western countries have slandered the DPRK with unfounded politically-motivated rhetoric at the G7 summit held in France, the DPRK official noted in the statement.

She expressed her strong dissatisfaction with and regret over what she called a direct violation by the G7 of the DPRK constitution.