New escalation. North Korea has passed a law authorizing it to carry out a preemptive nuclear strike, North Korean state media reported on Friday (September 9th). Concretely, this law will allow him to trigger a strike “automatically [et] immediately to annihilate hostile forces” if a foreign power were to threaten Pyongyang, according to the KCNA agency. By this new text, “Our country’s status as a nuclear-weapon state has become irreversible,” said dictator Kim Jong-un.
The announcement comes as Pyongyang conducted a record number of missile tests this year and blamed Seoul for the recent Covid-19 outbreak that hit the country. In July, Kim Jong-un had asserted that his country was “ready to deploy” its nuclear deterrent force in the event of a military confrontation with the United States and South Korea.
“Renouncing nuclear weapons is totally out of the question, and there can be no denuclearization or negotiation”had already declared Kim Jong-un Thursday in a speech before the North Korean Parliament.