The law includes a provision that requires the DPRK’s military to automatically execute nuclear strikes against enemy forces if its leadership comes under attack.

“The purpose of the United States is not only to remove our nuclear might itself, but eventually forcing us to surrender or weaken our rights to self-defense through giving up our nukes, so that they could collapse our government at any time,” Kim Jong Un said in the speech published by the DPRK’s official Korean Central News Agency.

AP article is extremely salty about this: https://archive.ph/rG7ap

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    A nuclear deterrent against a coups or colour revolution is something that's never existed before right? I wonder how that would play out in practice in the midst of an actual coup or rev.