North Korea makes nuclear policy ‘irreversible’ with new law

North Korea says it is committed to holding on to its nuclear weapons and has no intention of resuming negotiations on denuclearization.
Pyongyang’s Parliament has passed a law authorising an ‘automatic nuclear strike’ if the country is ever attacked.
Al Jazeera’s Rob McBride has reports from Seoul, South Korea.

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makes nuclear policy ‘irreversible’ with new law

North Korea passed a law enshrining the right to use pre-emptive nuclear strikes to protect itself, a move leader Kim Jong-un said makes its nuclear status “irreversible” and bars any denuclearisation talks, state media reported on Friday.
The move comes as observers say North Korea appears to be preparing to resume nuclear testing for the first time since 2017, after historic summits with then-US president Donald Trump and other world leaders in 2018 failed to persuade Kim to abandon his weapons development.
The North’s rubber-stamp parliament, the Supreme People’s Assembly, passed the law on Thursday, according to state news agency KCNA.
“The utmost significance of legislating nuclear weapons policy is to draw an irretrievable line so that there can be no bargaining over our nuclear weapons,” Kim said in a speech to the assembly, adding that he would never surrender the weapons even if the country faced 100 years of sanctions.

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