The (Horse eighth day of the twelfth lunar month), January 10, 2003, North Korea announced its withdrawal from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. In January 2003, the North Korean government suddenly said in a statement that the United States continues its hostile policy against North Korea, and "instigation of the International Atomic Energy Agency adopted a resolution to the threat of North Korea's national sovereignty and dignity, so North Korea You must exit the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Announced its withdrawal from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons "which means three months after North Korea will no longer be bound by the constraints of the International Covenant on. But North Korea had no intention to develop nuclear weapons, and then said that as long as the United States to give up its hostile policy toward the DPRK and the lifting of the North Korean nuclear threat, North Korea to the international community to prove that it did not develop the manufacture of nuclear weapons.

statement also severely condemned the International Atomic Energy Agency, saying that "the United States to implement its hostile policy toward the DPRK tools. However, the statement concluded by emphasizing the DPRK has no intention of making nuclear weapons, nuclear operations at this stage is limited to peaceful purposes such as power generation. KCNA reported that if the United States changes its against the DPRK hostile policy to abandon nuclear threat to the DPRK and recovery to provide North Korea with heavy oil, North Korea will reconsider its denunciation, and by other means to the United States shortly after forwarding statement prove that North Korea does not have nuclear weapons.