China’s reaction to North Korea’s nuclear weapons first-use law tipped to be muted

China’s reaction to a new North Korean law sanctioning the launch of preventive nuclear strikes will be muted, analysts said, despite Beijing’s support for denuclearisation of the Korea peninsula.

This comes after Pyongyang passed a new law outlining scenarios for pre-emptive nuclear strikes if attacked by “hostile forces”, declaring it would not abandon its nuclear weapons programme.