North Korea enshrines nuclear power status in constitution

North Korea Leader Kim Jong Un attended the 9th Session of the 14th Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK at the Mansudae Assembly Hall in Pyongyang. Kim Jong Un called for more modern atomic weapons to counter the threat, state media reported Thursday.

​North Korea's "nuclear force-building policy has been made permanent as the basic law of the state, which no one is allowed to flout", Kim said at a meeting of the State People's Assembly, according to the official Korean Central News Agency.