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

  • 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?"