00:05Pyongyang has reportedly adopted a new policy that would trigger an automatic nuclear strike
00:11if leader Kim Jong-un is assassinated or incapacitated during a foreign attack.
00:17And according to reports, the move may have been directly influenced by recent U.S. and
00:23Israeli operations against Iran. That is where this story becomes even more explosive.
00:30The constitutional revision was reportedly approved during North Korea's Supreme People
00:35Assembly session in Pyongyang on March 22.
00:40Under the revised law, Kim Jong-un still controls North Korea's nuclear arsenal, but now the
00:47country has formally laid out what happens if the leadership is targeted.
00:53According to the updated policy, if North Korea's nuclear command and control system is placed
00:59in danger by hostile forces, a nuclear strike shall be launched automatically and immediately.
01:06That single line is now sending shockwaves through the international community, because critics
01:12fear it lowers the threshold for nuclear war, especially during moments of confusion, conflict,
01:18or miscalculation. And there is another key detail. Reports say this policy shift comes just months
01:26after top Iranian leaders, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and several senior
01:32advisers were assassinated during U.S.-Israeli military operations. Experts believe North Korea
01:39watched those strikes very closely.
01:43Professor Andrei Longkov of Cookman University says Iran became a wake-up call for Pyongyang.
01:49According to him, North Korea saw how rapidly and efficiently Iran's top leadership was eliminated,
01:56and fears it could one day face a similar decapitation strike.
02:00But unlike Iran, North Korea is one of the most isolated countries on Earth. Foreign diplomats,
02:07business visitors, and aid workers are heavily monitored. Its internet is tightly restricted,
02:13its surveillance systems are controlled internally. And experts say this makes intelligence operations
02:19inside Pyongyang far more difficult than in Tehran. Still, North Korea appears deeply worried
02:26about modern surveillance and satellite tracking technologies. Kim Jong-un himself is known for
02:32extreme security precautions. He rarely travels by air, he moves in heavily armored trains, and travels
02:40surrounded by intense protection. But Pyongyang is not stopping there. Reports also say North Korea plans
02:47to deploy a new long-range artillery system near the South Korean border this year. State media claims the
02:54new 155-millimeter self-propelled howitzer and strike targets over 37 miles away. That means central Seoul
03:04could potentially fall within range. North Korea says the new artillery system will bring significant
03:10advantages to its ground operations. For now, the message from Pyongyang is clear. Any attempt to remove Kim
03:18Jong-un from power could risk triggering an immediate and catastrophic response. And in a world already facing rising
03:26tensions between nuclear powers, that warning is now impossible to ignore.
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