Pyongyang has carried out a record number of weapons tests this year, while accusing Seoul of being responsible for the outbreak of the new coronavirus pandemic that has recently hit North Korea.
New escalation in North Korea’s nuclear arsenal file: Pyongyang adopts law allowing it to conduct preemptive strikes with nuclear weapons and calls the country’s nuclear power status “irreversible,” meaning negotiations on its denuclearization are out of the question, North Korea’s state-run KCNA news agency reported today.
This news is recorded against the background of the atmosphere of tension in inter-Korean relations.
Pyongyang has carried out a record number of weapons tests this year, while accusing Seoul of being responsible for the outbreak of the new coronavirus pandemic that recently hit the country. North Korea.
The law passed allows Pyongyang to launch pre-emptive strikes with nuclear weapons “automatically” and “immediately” in order to annihilate enemy forces” if any foreign power threatens North Korea, according to KCNA.
With this new text, “our country’s status as a nuclear-armed state becomes irreversible,” North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said, according to the same source.
Already, in July, Mr. Kim declared that his country was “ready to deploy” its nuclear deterrent in the event of a conflict with the US and South Korea.
“It is completely out of the question (for North Korea) to renounce nuclear weapons and there will be no denuclearization or negotiation,” he insisted yesterday during a speech before the North Korean parliament, according to KCNA.
“Peak of Absurdity”
North Korea test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) this year, among other things, for the first time since 2017.
US and South Korean officials have warned repeatedly in recent days that Pyongyang is preparing to conduct a nuclear weapon test, its seventh in a row.
The unresolved issue of the lifting of sanctions and what Pyongyang was willing to do in return was the reason for the end in 2019 of negotiations on North Korea’s weapons programs between Washington and Pyongyang.
Last month, Seoul hinted at a plan to give Pyongyang a large aid package, including food, energy and aid to modernize infrastructure, in exchange for North Korea’s denuclearization.
Kim Jong Un’s government rejected the offer, calling it “the height of absurdity”.
New South Korean President Yoon Sok-gil assured last month that his government has no plans to acquire a nuclear deterrent.
In late August, the US and South Korea held their largest joint military drills since 2018.
The US is South Korea’s main security ally. About 28,500 US military personnel are deployed on South Korean territory.
The Korean War (1950-1953) ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty. Technically, North Korea and South Korea remain at war.
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