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North Korea has passed a new law declaring itself a nuclear weapons state in a move leader Kim Jong Un says is “irreversible.”

Kim vowed the country would “never give up” its nuclear weapons and said there could be no negotiations on denuclearization as he hailed the passage of the law, North Korean state media reported Friday.

The new law also enshrines Pyongyang’s right to use preemptive nuclear strikes to protect itself – updating a previous stance under which it had said it would keep its weapons only until other countries denuclearized and would not use them preemptively against non-nuclear states.

Nuclear weapons represent the “dignity, body, and absolute power of the state,” Kim said as he welcomed the decision by the country’s rubber-stamp parliament – the Supreme People’s Assembly – to pass the new law in a unanimous vote.

“The adoption of laws and regulations related to the national nuclear force policy is a remarkable event as it’s our declaration that we legally acquired war deterrence as a means of national defense,” Kim said.

“As long as nuclear weapons exist on Earth, and imperialism and the anti-North Korean maneuvers of the US and its followers remain, our road to strengthening our nuclear force will never end.”

The new law also bans the sharing of nuclear technology with other countries.

It comes amid rising regional tensions over North Korea’s expansion of its nuclear weapons and missiles program.

Kim has made increasingly provocative threats of nuclear conflict toward the United States and its allies in Asia in recent months.

At the same time, the US has become increasingly concerned that North Korea may be preparing to carry out its first underground nuclear test in years

Yang Moo-jin, a professor at the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul, said the law demonstrated Pyongyang’s hopes of strengthening its relations with China and Russia at a time of heightened global tensions.

“North Korea mentioning the possibility of using nuclear weapons if and when an attack on the state and leader is imminent is significant, even though it states nuclear weapons as a defensive last resort,” Yang said.

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This is just the latest incarnation of their saber rattling to get money out of the international community. 

It’s generally agreed that they have a small arsenal of Nuclear weapons with the hugest yield probably at or below the bombs dropped on Japan. That’s about 9-13 kt (roughly 9,000-13,000 tons of TNT). It’s also agreed that they have developed an ICBM that can hit 15,000 km. 
 

That being said, a Hiroshima level bomb isn’t a threat to the west or it’s allies in Asia, you can destroy a city with that — kill hundreds of thousands of people, but you won’t destroy a country with that. 
 

The US on the other hand can strap dozens of 9.5 megaton (9,500,000 tons of TNT) thermonuclear warheads on dozens of 15,000 km ICBMs and launch them with ease from the continental US and turn half of the Korean Peninsula in radioactive glass.  The North Korean high command are tyrannical and they’ve turned their population into warped feudal chattle, but they aren’t suicidal. 
 

It’s always good to be wary of a state like North Korea having nuclear bombs, but pigs will fly before they want to fuck around and find out. They won’t dare wage war against the South, Japan or the west unless they have a death wish.

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