In about a week’s time on October 9th it will be the 16th anniversary of the DPRK’s first ever nuclear test and recently on the 8th of September the DPRK Supreme People’s Assembly passed the historic law on On The State Policy On The Nuclear Forces which fully legalised the DPRK’s status as a nuclear power . Also in the coming weeks or months we may or may not hear again the nuclear thunder of Juche , the nuclear thunder of Songun.
The DPRK’s newly defined mission of the DPRK nuclear forces is to ‘ deter a war by making hostile forces have a clear understanding of the fact that the military confrontation with the DPRK brings about ruin and give up attempts at aggression and attack.”
The DPRK ‘s use of nuclear forces can only occur under certain situations , these are defined as ‘In case an attack by nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction was launched or drew near is judged’
In case a nuclear or non-nuclear attack by hostile forces on the state leadership and the command organization of the state's nuclear forces was launched or drew near is judged
In case a fatal military attack against important strategic objects of the state was launched or drew near is judged
In case the need for operation for preventing the expansion and protraction of a war and taking the initiative in the war in contingency is inevitably raised.”
(Quotations from the DPRK Law on State Policy of Nuclear Forces )
Marshal KIM JONG UN in his speech to the Supreme People’s Assembly said “The legalization of the policy of the nuclear forces in accordance with the unanimous desire and iron will of all the people is of tremendous significance.
With this, the position of our state as a nuclear nation has become irreversible.”
It is very notable that the DPRK is saying that its nuclear status is ‘irreversible ‘
Needless to say the DPRK enemies such as the US imperialist and south Korean puppets as well as vassal states of the US are not happy about this .
A certain British organisation has chimed in with the US imperialists and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office by saying that the DPRK’s Law on Nuclear Forces ‘ is apparently “very worrying development” (?!) . What is noteworthy is that the organisation concerned fails to use the proper title ; DPRK but instead throughout the statement refers to ‘North Korea ‘.
We answer this ‘criticism ‘ as follows ;
Firstly , the DPRK new law on nuclear forces does not make explicit reference to ‘first strikes ‘ or ‘pre-emptive strikes ‘ ,although it is implied that under certain very limited situations these may be carried out . There is no blank cheque for a pre-emptive nuclear strike by the DPRK but rather the DPRK’s nuclear weapons are a last resort and a deterrent .
Secondly , the US has a nuclear first strike policy so why shouldn’t the DPRK have one ? Why do some people think the imperialists and big countries should have a monopoly on a nuclear first strike? Surely it is only fair that the DPRK should match the US policy of a nuclear first strike with its own ?
Thirdly , it is the US that first developed nuclear weapons and actually used nuclear weapons against a non-nuclear state . Moreover the US considered a nuclear first strike against the DPRK during the Korean War of 1950-1953 , during the “Pueblo Incident ‘ of 1968 and the Panmunjom incident of 1976 and other occasions . The US designated the DPRK a target of a US nuclear first strike in 2002.
Fourthly , Korea was divided by force by the US in 1945 and the DPRK was invaded by the US imperialist in 1950 with at least 1.2 million civilians killed and the country devastated completely . The DPRK’s nuclear deterrent will ensure this does not happen again .
Fifthly, is the DPRK supposed to fold its arms and just sit and wait to be invaded by the US imperialists .
Sixth , the experience of the 1962 Caribbean crisis in which the USSR pulled its missiles out of Cuba and allowed UN inspections after only 6 days and without consulting the Cuban leadership shows that a small country cannot rely on a big country for its defence .Moreover the experience of some big powers recently shows that such countries may not be an efficient ally as some imagine them to be.
Seventh ,the DPRK did all that it could to work towards a peaceful settlement of DPRK-US relations and issues on the Korean peninsula by holding 2 summits and 1 meeting with US president Trump as well as 3 Inter-Korean summits .It should be added that the DPRK carried out its first nuclear test 59 years after the US introduced nuclear weapons into south Korea.
In conclusion we would point out that the DPRK’s Law on the State Policy of Nuclear Forces is about defending the DPRK’s independence and territorial integrity as well as the socialist system of the DPRK . It is regrettably that some who style themselves as ‘progressives ‘ or ‘leftists ‘ share the desire of the imperialists for the dismantling of the socialist system of the DPRK or for ‘reforms ‘ and ‘opening up ‘. A few years when there were the DPRK-US summits and the inter-Korean summits some people claimed that the DPRK had sold out and the hostile forces predicted that the DPRK would unilaterally disarm , that it would ‘open up and reform ‘ and a McDonalds would open in Pyongyang . Four and half years later there are no McDonalds in Pyongyang or anywhere else in the DPRK and not a single DPRK nuke or ICBM has been dismantled and now the DPRK is stating the irreversibility of its nuclear status . What a big slap in the face this is for some people..
Bravo to People's Korea for declaring itself a permanent nuclear weapons state . The DPRK has rejected all attempts to disarm it and push it down a certain path . The DPRK also rejected so -called aid from south Korea which was conditional on the DPRK unilaterally disarming itself . The DPRK also rejected imperialist aid when the Covid 19 epidemic arose in the DPRK .
It is good to see a country standing up for itself and not taking any nonsense from the US imperialists!
The DPRK’s Law On State Policy of Nuclear Forces is the independent and sovereign right of the DPRK which no one should interfere in or take issue with !
Hands off People's Korea !
Defend People's Korea !
Long live Juche !
Long live Songun !
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