The Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK has adopted a law on amendments to the country's constitution, which enshrine the status of nuclear forces and provide for their accelerated development in order to guarantee the "right of the country to exist", as well as to ensure the deterrence and the protection of peace and stability in the region and in the world. The amendments are being adopted against the background of changes in the security situation.
The agency cited the content of the amendments, which note that the North Korea "as a responsible nuclear state" is rapidly developing nuclear weapons to ensure the country's right to exist – nuclear weapons are assigned a key role "in protecting the sovereignty, territorial integrity of the state, the rights and interests of the people", as well as in "protecting the socialist system and the conquests of the revolution." It is noted that the law on amendments to the Constitution was adopted "with full support and approval." North Korean leader Kim Jong-un called the amendments a "historic event", "a powerful political weapon" and "the most just and timely measure that meets the requirements of modernity."
The adoption of the law was preceded by a speech by Kim Jong-un, who at the 9th session of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK stated that "the most important task" for the DPRK is "the rapid strengthening of the nuclear armed forces in qualitative and quantitative terms." Kim Jong-un called for the implementation of work on increasing the production of nuclear weapons "exponentially," and also set the task of developing new "shock nuclear weapons and putting them on combat duty of different types of troops."
The leader of the DPRK explained the need to build up nuclear forces by the increasingly complicated security situation. He noted that the United States "has stepped up the creation of a trilateral military alliance with Japan and the Republic of Korea," which leads to the creation of an analogue of the NATO alliance in the Asia-Pacific region (APR). According to the North Korean leader, "this is not a rhetorical threat and an imaginary reality," but a "real maximum threat." Kim Jong-un also said that the United States is resuming large-scale joint nuclear military exercises, as well as "placing nuclear strategic weapons on the Korean peninsula at the level of permanent deployment." According to him, such actions by the United States pose "a serious threat to the existence of sovereign states," and also bring the threat of nuclear war against the DPRK to an "unprecedented and maximum" level.
Source: Central Telegraph Agency of Korea
