Kim Jong Un made a serious change to North Korea’s constitution: If anyone takes him out, or he becomes incapacitated in a foreign attack, a nuclear strike will be launched.
The revision was passed during the 15th Supreme People’s Assembly in Pyongyang on March 22 and was revealed last week by South Korea’s intelligence service.
The amendment also states: “If the command-and-control system over the state’s nuclear forces is placed in danger by hostile forces’ attacks… a nuclear strike shall be launched automatically and immediately.”
The timing isn’t coincidental: Professor Andrei Lankov, a historian and expert in international relations at Kookmin University in Seoul, notes, “Iran was the wake-up call. North Korea saw the remarkable efficiency of the US-Israeli decapitation attacks, which immediately eliminated the greater part of the Iranian leadership, and they must now be terrified.”
The recent assassination of Iran’s supreme leader may have brought back bad memories of 2022, when the U.S. and South Korea launched war simulations with North Korea as the target. The military labeled it a kill chain, in which they target North Korea’s nuclear sites and go for a decapitation, meaning an assassination of Kim Jong Un.
These changes weren’t limited to nuclear policy. Other constitutional revisions included cutting all references to reunification with the South. North Korea hasn’t commented, but South Korea says it’s sticking to peaceful coexistence. Good luck with that. Kim Jong Un is reportedly planning to deploy new artillery along the southern border, potentially putting Seoul within striking distance.
The constitutional amendments make it obvious that Pyongyang has no problem launching a nuclear strike, all while the U.S. obsesses over preventing Iran from developing weapons it doesn’t have the means to create and wasn’t attempting to.
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