North Korea vowed to automatically and immediately launch its nuclear weapons if the country’s leader, Kim Jong Un is killed or incapacitated in an attack.
The legislation, which quickly passed the country’s rubber stamp parliament, also grants the country’s leaders authority to use nuclear weapons in a pre-emptive strike if the dictatorship feels an attack by foreign powers is imminent.
“The nuclear posture of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is guaranteed by the reliable, effective and matured nuclear deterrence, defensive and responsible nuclear forces policy and flexible and purposeful strategy for using nuclear weapon capable of actively coping with any existing and developing nuclear threats in future,” the law reads.
North Korea spent a vast amount of years pursuing nuclear weapons before successfully testing their first bomb in 2006. The country’s leaders view it as an essential form of deterrent from foreign intervention.
While the United States remains committed to denuclearizing the entire Korean peninsula, Kim has said the issue is a non-starter.
“We will never give up nuclear weapons and there is absolutely no denuclearization, and no negotiation and no bargaining chip to trade in the process,” he told North Korean media on Friday.
The new law potentially heightens the risk of conflict on the continent.
“This raises serious questions about the North’s ability to get accurate intelligence and what the threshold of evidence will be to make those judgment calls,” Jenny Town, a senior fellow and director of the 38 North program at the Stimson Center said.
Go ahead Kim, your country will become a field of glass. Bad thing id the world as a whole will suffer because of this mad man.
North Korea seriously overestimates their importance on the world stage. They’re like the 4 pound chihuahua nipping at the world’s pant legs.
Hopefully he’ll take out the great state of California, they have nothing to live for anyway
I don’t think this is a threat against the United States. Maybe China or Russia.
I guess these people just do not like the world ,meaning earth . Nuclear armaments would decimate the planet
no matter where used or deployed. Their country as well. I try to understand but do not….????
Yet again this is Brandon’s fault. The whole world has watched and as a result been empowered by Brandon’s constant debacles on the world stage. First there was Afghanistan and now we are watching Ukraine. All of our enemies are watching delited that they can do anything and America will do nothing! None of this would have happened with Trump!