North Korea incorporated the country’s nuclear power status into its constitution, the official KCNA news agency said Thursday.
“The policy of building a nuclear force of the DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) has been permanently established as basic law of the State, that no one can circumvent by any means,” said the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a meeting of the country’s People’s Congress held on Tuesday and Wednesday, according to KCNA.
North Korea has carried out a number record of weapons tests this year, during which speculation has grown about a nuclear test that would be the seventh in its history and the first since 2017.
It also increased the tension with South Korea and the United States, that have intensified joint military exercises in the area.
Diplomacy is at a standstill and the possibility of negotiating a denuclearization of the peninsula seems negligible.