NKorea law permits nuclear first strike

By Agence France-Presse

Sep 10, 2022 12:11 am

SEOUL, South Korea: North Korea has passed a law allowing it to carry out a preventive nuclear strike and declaring its status as a nuclear-armed state 'irreversible,' state media said Friday.

The announcement comes at a time of crumbling ties between the North and South, with Pyongyang blaming Seoul for the outbreak of Covid-19 in its territory and conducting a record number of weapons tests this year.

NUCLEAR-ARMED STATE This picture taken on Sept. 8, 2022, and released by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency on September 9 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un delivering a speech at the second-day sitting of the 7th Session of the 14th Supreme People’s Assembly of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea at the Mansudae Assembly Hall in Pyongyang. PHOTO BYKCNA VIA KNS / AFP

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