North Korea’s foreign ministry has said that recent comments by CIA Director Mike Pompeo prove that the ultimate goal of U.S. policy is regime change, in a statement carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) and reported by Seoul’s Yonhap News Agency.

“It has now become clear that the ultimate aim of the Trump administration’s hostile policy towards the DPRK is the ‘regime change’,” the foreign ministry statement reportedly reads.

The editorial is a response to comments made by Pompeo last Thursday during a discussion at the Aspen Security Forum.

The CIA Director told an audience that while it would