The U.N. secretary general has thrown his weight behind the ongoing talks between North Korea and the U.S. over the former’s nuclear disarmament, stressing that Pyongyang must be denuclearized in an "irreversible" and "verifiable" way to prevent another Hiroshima or Nagasaki incident from happening.
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