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TOKYO – Japan's prime minister said Tuesday that Japan will stick to its policy of not having nuclear weapons despite North Korea's alleged nuclear test.
"We have no intention of changing our policy that possessing nuclear weapons is not our option," Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told a parliamentary session. "There will be no change in our non-nuclear arms principles."
Japan's pacifist constitution bars the use of force to settle international disputes, and Japan has maintained a policy of not producing, possessing or using nuclear weapons.
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