In order to expand and bolster its nuclear force, North Korea has reportedly made sweeping changes to its constitution. The amendment mandates automatic nuclear strike if its leader Kim Jong Un is Assassinated. After two days of meeting the new law was added to the constitution in its parliament after being passed by North Korea’s Supreme People’s Assembly (SPA), where leader Kim Jong Un addressed participants and called the move historic, reported the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA)
The amendment states, “If the command-and-control system over the state’s nuclear forces is placed in danger by hostile forces’ attacks … a nuclear strike shall be launched automatically and immediately,” as part of Article 3 of North Korea’s nuclear policy law.
Kim also justified Pyongyang’s weapons development programme by highlighting trilateral military cooperation between the United States, South Korea, and Japan – which he termed as the worst threat.
There were other changes too intoduced in the constitution like the removal of references to Korean reunification, strengthening territorial definitions of the DPRK, and a further emphasis on nuclear deterrence as a core element of national policy.