SEOUL: Northern Korea has handed a law formally enshrining its nuclear weapons policies, the move that head Kim Jong El said makes its nuclear status “irreversible” and bars any negotiation on denuclearisation, state media reported on Friday (Sep 9).
The move provides observers say Northern Korea appears to be preparing to resume nuclear screening for the first time since 2017, after historic summits with then-US Leader Donald Trump as well as other world leaders within 2018 failed to persuade Kim to give up on his weapons advancement.
The North’s parliament, the Best People’s Assembly, flushed the law on Thurs, according to state news agency KCNA. Legislation outlines when nuclear weapons can be used, which includes to protect the nation’s strategic assets and if it is attacked.
The law also bans any sharing associated with nuclear arms or technology with other nations, KCNA reported.
“The utmost significance of legislating nuclear weapons policy is to draw an irretrievable line so that there may be no bargaining over our nuclear weaponry, ” Kim said in a speech to the Supreme People’s Set up.
US Chief executive Joe Biden’s management has offered to speak with Kim any time, at any place, and South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol has said his country would provide massive amounts of economic aid if Pyongyang began to give up its arsenal.