North Korea Amends Constitution, Mandates Nuclear Strike if Kim Jong Un Is Assassinated: Report
- On Thursday, South Korea's National Intelligence Service briefed senior officials on North Korea's constitutional amendment mandating an automatic nuclear strike if leader Kim Jong-un is assassinated or incapacitated by foreign adversaries.
- The revision followed joint US-Israeli strikes against Iran that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and senior aides, an operation that reportedly rattled Pyongyang's leadership regarding personal security concerns.
- Under revised Article 3, North Korea's nuclear policy now mandates a strike must be launched "automatically and immediately" if hostile attacks place the country's command-and-control system in danger.
- Prof Lankov of Kookmin University in Seoul noted the shift reduces chain-of-command uncertainty, though critics warn hard-coding the doctrine into the constitution raises rapid escalation risks.
- North Korea, believed to possess 50 warheads, has adopted an increasingly overt nuclear posture amid deepening military cooperation within the CRINK alliance of China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea.
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North Korea has amended its constitution to commit its military to a nuclear retaliatory strike if leader Kim Jong Un is killed by a foreign adversary, the British newspaper The Telegraph reported, citing South Korea's National Intelligence Service (NIS). The amendment comes after the assassination of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and many of his closest advisers at the start of a US-Israeli war against Iran.
Israel and the U.S. are hit by a fatal blow to the country's top leader right at the beginning of the Iran war. This seems to scare North Korea as well. If dictator Kim now has a similar fate, Pyongyang probably has an exact retaliation plan.
North Korea has changed its constitution and now prescribes a nuclear retaliation strike if Kim Jong-un is killed or rendered unfit in an attack.
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North Korean nuclear policy is on a new course. Kim Jong-un has passed a law authorizing an automatic atomic response in case of assassination or loss of military control, increasing tension...
North Korea is a nuclear power. Now dictator Kim Jong-Un writes nuclear attacks even mandatory in the constitution. There is only one condition.
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