An American commitment to securing a formal end to the Korean War will not be enough to result in Pyongyang taking further steps towards denuclearization, the country’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said in a commentary on Tuesday.

Citing “Korean issue experts of America,” the commentary derided claims that the DPRK would see an end-of-war declaration as a sufficient concession to begin the dismantling of the Yongbyon nuclear facility.

Last month’s Pyongyang Declaration saw the North commit to dismantling that facility – widely regarded as central to the DPRK’s nuclear program-  in exchange for “corresponding actions” from the U.S.

Since July,