N. Korea’s Nuclear Strike Will Begin ‘IMMEDIATELY’ If Kim Is Killed | Kim Fears Iran Style U.S. HIT?

Added: 2026-05-10

[00:00:00][music] >> Pyongyang has reportedly adopted a new policy that would trigger an automatic nuclear strike if leader Kim Jong Un is assassinated [music] or incapacitated during a foreign attack. And according to reports, [music] the move may have been directly influenced by recent US [music] and Israeli operations against Iran.

[00:00:26]That is where this story becomes even more explosive.

[00:00:30]The constitutional revision was reportedly approved during North Korea's [music] Supreme People Assembly session in Pyongyang on March 22nd.

[00:00:40]Under the revised law, Kim Jong Un still controls North Korea's nuclear arsenal, but now the country has formally laid out what happens if the leadership [music] is targeted.

[00:00:53]According to the updated policy, if North Korea's nuclear command and control system is placed in danger by hostile forces, a nuclear strike shall be launched automatically and immediately.

[00:01:06]That single line is now sending shockwaves through the international community because critics fear it lowers the threshold for nuclear war, especially during moments of confusion, conflict, [music] or miscalculation.

[00:01:20]And there is another key detail.

[00:01:23]Reports say this policy shift comes just months after top [music] Iranian leaders, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and several senior advisers, were assassinated during US-Israeli military operations.

[00:01:37]Experts [music] believe North Korea watched those strikes very closely.

[00:01:42]Professor Andrei Lankov of Kookmin University says Iran became a wake-up call for Pyongyang. According to him, North Korea saw how rapidly and efficiently Iran's top leadership was eliminated and fears it could one day face a similar decapitation strike. But unlike Iran, North Korea is one of the most [music] isolated countries on Earth. Foreign diplomats, business visitors, and aid [music] workers are heavily monitored. Its internet is tightly restricted, its surveillance systems are controlled internally, [music] and experts say this makes intelligence operations inside Pyongyang far more difficult than in Tehran.

[00:02:24]Still, North Korea appears deeply worried about modern [music] surveillance and satellite tracking technologies. Kim Jong-un himself is known for extreme security precautions.

[00:02:35]He rarely travels by air, he moves in heavily armored trains, and travels surrounded by intense protection. But Pyongyang is not stopping there. Reports also say North Korea plans to deploy a new long-range artillery system [music] near the South Korean border this year.

[00:02:53]State media claims the new 155-mm self-propelled howitzer can strike targets over 37 miles away. That means central Seoul could potentially fall within range. North Korea says the new artillery system will bring significant advantages to its ground operations.

[00:03:13]>> [music] >> For now, the message from Pyongyang is clear. Any attempt to remove [music] Kim Jong-un from power could risk triggering an immediate and catastrophic response.

[00:03:24]And in a world already facing rising tensions between nuclear powers, that [music] warning is now impossible to ignore.

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