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

  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    :kim-drip: We've got nukes. Leave us alone.

    :porky-scared-flipped: He's threatening us! He's threatening us!

    • star_wraith [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      He’s threatening us! He’s threatening us!

      Says the only country that's ever used nukes on people, the only country that maintains the right to first strike capability, and the country that talks about using them the moment someone who they are fighting decides to actually fight back (see: Vietnam and North Korea in their respective wars against the US).