North Korea inscribes its status as a nuclear power in its Constitution

North Korea incorporated the country’s nuclear power status into its Constitution, the official KCNA news agency said on Thursday.

“The politics of building a nuclear force DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) has been permanently established as the basic law of the State, which no one can circumvent by any means“said the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a meeting of the Popular Assembly of the country held on Tuesday and Wednesday, according to KCNA.

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North Korea carried out a record number of weapons tests this year, during which speculation increased about a nuclear test that would be the seventh in its history and the first since 2017.

A year ago, the People’s Congress passed a law declaring North Korea a nuclear power, and Kim said that status was “irreversible”. The legislation also allowed the preventive use of this type of weapons.

Now, this legislative body controlled by the North Korean leadership goes a step further and writes this statute into the Constitution itself, which further distances the prospect of denuclearization of the peninsula.

“It is a historic event that provides a powerful political asset to significantly strengthen national defense capabilities.,” Kim said, according to KCNA.

The North Korean leader also stated that U.S, South Korea It is Japan formed a “triangular military alliance“and that’s it”finally resulted in the emergence of a ‘Asian version of NATO‘, the cause of war and aggression”.

“This is the worst current threat” he added.

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“On the brink of nuclear war”

In addition to this year’s multiple weapons tests, which included launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles, Pyongyang He tried unsuccessfully on two occasions to put a military intelligence satellite into orbit.

South Korea and the United States responded by strengthening their defense cooperation, with numerous joint military exercises in which Japan also participated.

Relations between the two Koreas are at one of their worst moments and the path to diplomatic resolution is paralyzed after failed attempts to discuss the denuclearization of the North.

Pyongyang’s representative at the UN, Kim’s Songdenounced this week before the General Assembly that the peninsula “is heading towards the brink of nuclear war”.

On September 2, Pyongyang held “a tactical nuclear strike exercise” with tactical nuclear warheads installed on two long-range cruise missiles fired into the sea, KCNA then explained.

This media highlighted that it was a “counterattack exercise”in light of US and South Korean military activity in the area, which Pyongyang perceives as preparations for an invasion.

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This constitutional addition comes shortly after Kim Jong-un’s visit to Russiahis first international trip since the pandemic and his summit with the president Vladimir Putin.

This meeting fueled Western fears that Moscow and Pyongyang unite and defy international sanctions with arms contracts.

Experts believe that Moscow is interested in acquiring North Korean ammunition for the war in Ukrainewhile Pyongyang wants Russian help to develop missiles and satellites.

Source: Elcomercio

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