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North Korea will 'automatically' launch nukes if Kim killed
By ALEXANDER WARD and LAWRENCE UKENYE 09/09/2022 03:54 PM EDT
...Kims move is likely in response to comments made by South Korean President YOON SUK-YEOL, who previously suggested that a preemptive strike on the kill chain in North Korea is necessary as Pyongyang prepares an attack. Indeed, Kim has now let the world know the red button may still get pushed even if hes dead.
In case the command and control system over the state nuclear forces is placed in danger owing to an attack by hostile forces, a nuclear strike shall be launched automatically and immediately to destroy the hostile forces including the starting point of provocation and the command according to the operation plan decided in advance, the new law reads.
The new law underscores the dangers of the U.S. and South Korea focusing on leadership decapitation strategies, said ANKIT PANDA, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. It was quite predictable that the North Koreans would go down the path of threatening automatic retaliation if Kim is killed.
In case the command and control system over the state nuclear forces is placed in danger owing to an attack by hostile forces, a nuclear strike shall be launched automatically and immediately to destroy the hostile forces including the starting point of provocation and the command according to the operation plan decided in advance, the new law reads.
The new law underscores the dangers of the U.S. and South Korea focusing on leadership decapitation strategies, said ANKIT PANDA, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. It was quite predictable that the North Koreans would go down the path of threatening automatic retaliation if Kim is killed.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/national-security-daily/2022/09/09/north-korea-will-automatically-launch-nukes-if-kim-killed-00055863
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North Korea will 'automatically' launch nukes if Kim killed (Original Post)
soryang
Sep 2022
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Lovie777
(12,324 posts)1. Kim learned from Putin .....
soryang
(3,299 posts)3. According to the article...
which I think is accurate:
Kims move is likely in response to comments made by South Korean President YOON SUK-YEOL, who previously suggested that a preemptive strike on the kill chain in North Korea is necessary as Pyongyang prepares an attack. Indeed, Kim has now let the world know the red button may still get pushed even if hes dead.
Yoon is incompetent and has zero geopolitical experience. I know the US and Japan are happy having someone like him in charge in South Korea, but they need to understand the serious shortcomings in his leadership and the security problems he is creating
SalamanderSleeps
(589 posts)2. Kim is just an incredible drama queen.
Unless he's holding a dead man's switch this notion is a complete fantasy.
He should be more worried about how his sister might take him out.
AllaN01Bear
(18,378 posts)4. what if he is killed by his own people?
dont ya know what he does to us, affects him too also.