North Korea has enacted a new law that makes its nuclear policy “irreversible” by authorizing preemptive strikes.
North Korea has enacted a new law that makes its nuclear policy “irreversible” and allows pre-emptive strikes if its government or nuclear arsenal is threatened, state media reported today.
The new law, approved the day before during the second plenary session that the Supreme National Assembly has been holding since this week, contemplates an “immediate” nuclear attack if the national command center or its nuclear arsenal are in danger of an attack. , according to details published by the news agency KCNA.
“We will never give up nuclear weapons and there is absolutely no denuclearization, no negotiations and no bargaining chips in the process,” leader Kim Jong-un said during a speech at the legislative body meeting, according to KCNA.
Kim accused the United States of trying to overthrow the North Korean regime by pressuring it through sanctions to abandon its nuclear weapons and development, calling Washington’s approach “an error of judgment and miscalculation” that will have no effect or ” in hundreds of years.”
Pyongyang’s nuclear policy reform is “a legal demand of the current situation” that will serve as a guarantee to strengthen the position as a nuclear state of the North, Kim said, adding that this drift is “of great importance to draw a line for that we can no longer negotiate on our nuclear policy.”
The North Korean leader said that for there to be any change in its nuclear policy, a change in the political and military situation on the Korean peninsula and globally would first be necessary.
North Korea has kept its borders closed since the outbreak of the covid-19 pandemic in early 2020 and has rejected the offers of dialogue raised since then by Seoul and Washington.
Last year, the North Korean regime approved a five-year weapons modernization plan that has led to about twenty projectile launches this year and that seems to be behind the preparations for a new nuclear test detected by satellite images this year.
If it takes place, it would be Pyongyang’s first atomic test in five years and which, according to South Korean and US intelligence, has been ready for months to be carried out.