North Korea ‘will fire nuclear weapon’ if Kim is killed
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/05/08/north-korean-nuclear-retaliation-if-kim-jong-un-killed/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_reddit_if-kim-jong-un-killed/&accesscontrol=facebookchannel_open
North Korea ‘will fire nuclear weapon’ if Kim is killed
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/05/08/north-korean-nuclear-retaliation-if-kim-jong-un-killed/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_reddit_if-kim-jong-un-killed/&accesscontrol=facebookchannel_open
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I picture the American Dad scene where Roger gets really beat up. Slowly pulls out a pistol, and shoots his own foot off lol.
**From The Telegraph:**
North Korea has changed its constitution so its military is required to launch a retaliatory nuclear strike if Kim Jong-un is assassinated by a foreign adversary.
The change was made after Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, and many of his closest advisers were killed in strikes at the start of the joint US-Israeli attacks against the regime in Tehran.
The revision was adopted at the first session of the 15th Supreme People’s Assembly, which opened on March 22 in Pyongyang. It was made public on Thursday in a briefing to senior members of the South Korean government by its National Intelligence Service (NIS).
According to the NIS briefing, Kim has command of the North’s nuclear forces, but the changes codify procedures for retaliatory attacks in the event that he is incapacitated or killed.
The revised Article 3 of the nuclear policy law 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.”
Prof Andrei Lankov, a Russian-born professor of history and international relations at Kookmin University in Seoul, said: “This may have been policy before, but it has added emphasis now it has been enshrined in the constitution.
“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.”
An attack designed to eliminate Kim and his immediate circle would be far harder to carry out than the attacks in Iran.
**More here:** [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/05/08/north-korean-nuclear-retaliation-if-kim-jong-un-killed/](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/05/08/north-korean-nuclear-retaliation-if-kim-jong-un-killed/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_reddit_if-kim-jong-un-killed/&accesscontrol=facebookchannel_open)
a dictatorial country will fire nukes when the dictator dies, more news at 10
So if Ruzzia falls out with Kim, makes it look like Ukraine or European spies assassinated him?
Quick, fire more missiles into the ocean!!!
Hmm, ok. But will it be pointy?
Ah, I was wondering when Dr. Strangelove’s doomsday device plan was going to be invoked IRL.
Kim wanted a headline so bad. Here you go, little guy.
so he’s afraid. good
Fire on who? That’s a very major distinction.
Since any launch of nuclear weapons would result in catastrophic reprisals, this would require whoever launched the nukes to have more loyalty to a dead guy than to whoever succeeds him or to his own will to live.
At whom?
Ok Hans Brix.
He wants to be the main character so bad but isn’t even in a supporting role.
Trump: good idea, I’ll get that added to our Constitution too.
No one talks about North Korea. You keep pushing yourselves into the spotlight with absurd statements and acting like, “Everyone’s bullying us—you’ll see!”
We don’t even think about you, at all!
Bro looks like a walking heart attack
Awwww, someone just wants to be noticed.
More clown stuff from clown countries, as usual
Someone is feeling ignored by the media
“F*ck you, dolphins!”
Into the ocean, like all the others?
As an celebration or what?
What about Kourtney, Kendall, Khloe, or Kylie? Do they not care about them too?