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By Lee Jong-Heon, East-Asia-Intel.com
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un who mobilized the military and threatened U.S. allies with Weapons of Mass Destruction for the past months has shifted his focus to the economic front.
![An undated photo released on April 28 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un visiting the Haedanghwa Health Complex with wife Ri Sol-Ju. /European Pressphoto Agency](https://www.worldtribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/unvisit-300x177.jpg)
On March 31, the Workers’ Party adopted the country’s “new strategic course of parallel economic construction and nuclear weapons development on the basis of self-reliance.”
The new strategy was approved on April 1 by the rubber-stamp Supreme People’s Assembly which also ratified a new law on “consolidating the position of a nuclear weapons state for self-defense,” declaring itself as “a full-fledged” nuclear power.
Rodong Sinmun, the organ of the Party, said on May 3 the country would take full advantage of the deterrence provided by its nuclear weapons to inject more resources into the building of its economy. “Only if the country becomes a nuclear power, can we pour funds and energy into the economic sector and strive for rapid growth,” it said.
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