SEOUL: North Korea has enshrined its status as a nuclear power in its constitution, with leader Kim Jong Un (pix) calling for more modern atomic weapo...
: North Korea has enshrined its status as a nuclear power in its constitution, with leader Kim Jong Un
Diplomatic efforts to convince Pyongyang to give up its atomic arsenal failed, and the constitutional change came after Kim’s declaration last year that North Korea was an “irreversible” nuclear weapons state. As a result, he added, “it is very important for the DPRK to accelerate the modernization of nuclear weapons in order to hold the definite edge of strategic deterrence”.
“North Korea’s nuclear and missile development threatens the peace and security of our country and the international community,“ Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said Thursday in response to the constitutional change. “Kim’s speech... signifies the permanence of his nuclear force,“ Yang Moon-jin, president of the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul, told AFP.- Space, missile programmes -
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