Correct Answer : North 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", Pyongyang's official media said Friday(9th Sep 2022).
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.
The law will allow North Korea to carry out a preventive nuclear strike "automatically" and "immediately to destroy the hostile forces" when a foreign country poses an imminent threat to Pyongyang.
With the newly enacted law, "the status of our country as a nuclear weapons state has become irreversible", leader Kim Jong Un said.
Kim in July said his country was "ready to mobilise" its nuclear capability in any war with the United States and the South.
He reiterated that Pyongyang would never give up the nuclear weapons it needed to counter hostilities from Washington, claiming the United States sought to "collapse" his regime at any time.
Nuclear talks and diplomacy between
Washington and
Pyongyang have been derailed since
2019 over sanctions relief and what Pyongyang would be willing to give up in return..
Source : Economic Times
