North Korea not bound by NPT under any circumstances: UN envoy

Seoul, May 7 North Korea is not bound under any circumstances by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), its representative to the United Nations said in a statement released Thursday, calling any attempt to force Pyongyang to fulfill treaty obligations a “wanton violation” of international law. In the statement, dated May 6 and carried by the North’s official Korean Central News Agency, Kim Song, Pyongyang’s permanent representative to the UN, claimed his country’s nuclear program reflects its “obligations under the law on nuclear forces policy and the constitution, which enshrined the country’s legal status as a nuclear-armed state.” “I denounce and…