North Korea will push forward its new state policy and the relinquishment of its nuclear arsenal along its own “timetable” regardless of external circumstances, the Rodong Sinmun, an organ of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK), said on Monday.

In a commentary titled “We will continuously push forward on the timetable we have set,” North Korea’s most widely circulated newspaper detailed the international community and foreign media response to last Thursday’s dismantlement of the country’s nuclear test site at Punggye-ri.

Pyongyang madethe first announcement of its plans to dismantle its northern nuclear test site and its shift to