The Rodong Shimmun released a photo June 8 of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un attending a meeting of the Workers' Party of Korea the previous day. Yonhap

North Korea said Saturday that South Korea should stop "nonsensical" talk about denuclearization, saying Seoul was unqualified to discuss or "poke its nose into" nuclear talks between Washington and Pyongyang.

Kwon Jong-gun, director-general of the department of U.S. affairs at North Korea's foreign ministry, made the remark in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency, saying the South talking about denuclearization was like "burping after drinking still water."

"It is really preposterous to hear the balderdash of the South Korean authorities ― who do not have either any qualification to discuss, or the position to poke their noses into, matters between the DPRK and the U.S., to say nothing of nuclear issues ― are commenting on the resumption of DPRK-U.S. dialogue and interpreting the issue of denuclearization at their own choice," he said.

The DPRK is the acronym of the North's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.