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

  • star_wraith [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    “Let them sanction us for 100 days, 1,000 days, 10 years or 100 years,” Kim said. “We will never give up our rights to self-defense that preserves our country’s existence and the safety of our people

    This is so incredibly mild compared to how most Americans would react should some other nation similarly threaten our sovereignty.

    • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Remember when Trump threatened them with “Fire and fury the world has never seen” in response to basically nothing? And half of Americans went “Yeah go Trump” and the other half went “That seems a bit excessive but at least he’s standing up to Kim!”

      • star_wraith [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        And the libs focused on "Trump is unhinged" and not "hey maybe one person shouldn't be allowed to have absolute control over the country's nukes? Like, why can't we insist that congress authorize their use or something like that?"