North Korea has reiterated a call for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from South Korea as a precondition to denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula, while blaming the U.S. for its nuclear development. 

According to the North's official Korean Central News Agency, a government spokesman issued a statement Wednesday and proposed five demands to South Korea and the U.S.

In the statement, the North said that all nuclear weapons and military bases where they are deployed in South Korea must be dismantled and the dismantlement should be verified by the world.

The North demanded the South must also guarantee never to threaten the North with nuclear war and not to use nuclear weapons against Pyongyang under any circumstances. 

The regime claimed that if such safety guarantees are secured, the North will also take corresponding measures that can lead to what it called a "revolutionary breakthrough" to realize the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.