full screen North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un. Archive image. Photo: Kcna Via AP/TT
North Korea has written its alleged status as a nuclear power into its constitution, the state-controlled KCNA news agency reports.
The reclusive dictatorship’s “nuclear armament policy has become a permanent part of the nation’s constitution, which no one is allowed to defy,” dictator Kim Jong-Un told the country’s National Assembly earlier this week, according to KCNA.
North Korea has carried out a record number of weapons tests this year, and the relationship with South Korea and the United States is strained, among other things as a result of concerns that Pyongyang may carry out its first nuclear weapons test since 2017.