The new law follows warnings that North Korea may be preparing another nuclear weapons test.
North Korea is toughening its nuclear policy with a new law saying the country will preemptively strike the United States or South Korea if they attempt to remove Kim Jong-un from power, state media reported Friday, according to theThe law, passed by North Korea's rubber-stamp parliament on Thursday, declares the country to be a nuclear weapons state and rules out any future talks of denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.
It stipulates that North Korea could use nuclear weapons if it believes an attack involving weapons of mass destruction — or a conventional attack against its leadership or nuclear systems — is incoming, the Times reports. The law also says it would use nuclear weapons to prevent "the expansion and protraction of a war," per the Times.
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