Kim Jong Un has changed North Korea‘s constitution so its military is required to launch a retaliatory nuclear strike if the dictator is assassinated.
The move is said to have been prompted by the killing of Iran‘s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and several of his top advisers during the opening phase of the joint US-Israeli attacks on Tehran.
According to South Korea‘s National Intelligence Service (NIS), the constitutional revision was adopted during the first session of the 15th Supreme People’s Assembly, which opened in Pyongyang on March 22.
The changes formalise procedures for a nuclear response in the event Kim is killed or left
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