Recent claims by U.S. officials that Pyongyang seeks to use its nuclear weapons for reunification are “lunacy” aimed at encouraging anti-DPRK sentiment in the South, the Rodong Sinmun claimed in a commentary on Wednesday.

Describing the argument that North Korea might use its arsenal to forcibly unify the peninsula as “preposterous sophistry,” the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) organ said the U.S. sought to “drive a wedge” between the two Koreas.

Chief of the U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM) Admiral Harry Harris earlier in the month saidNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Un was developing nuclear weapons to achieve the forcible