Kim Jong Un has secured himself against an attack by foreign forces.Image: keystone
North Korea’s constitution was amended. If ruler Kim Jong Un is killed or incapacitated by foreign forces, a nuclear strike must follow immediately. The background is the Israeli-American attack on Iran’s leader Ali Khamenei.
May 11, 2026, 10:37 amMay 11, 2026, 10:37 am
The constitutional change was announced on Thursday by South Korean intelligence, as was the British one telegraph reported. Accordingly, nuclear weapons should be used “automatically and immediately” if North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is killed or incapacitated in a foreign attack.
The constitutional change is said to have been discussed in March. This after the world watched as Israeli and American forces wiped out several senior Iranian regime members in one fell swoop. Among them was the country’s spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Those in power in fear
“That was a wake-up call,” says Andrei Lankow, professor of international relations at Kookmin University in Seoul. He believes the attacks horrified the North Korean leadership. It is believed that Kim Jong Un fears a military attack by the USA after it first arrested Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro and shortly afterwards took part in the attack in Tehran.
Ali Khamenei and other high-ranking regime members were killed in a targeted attack in Iran’s capital Tehran on February 28. The men had previously been observed for years. After Ali Khamenei’s death, his son Moschtaba Khamenei took over the leadership, but to date he has not appeared in public. It is suspected that he was also seriously injured in the attack and has been in a coma ever since.
In order to avoid this fate, Kim Jong Un has now secured himself further. It is not the only constitutional change in North Korea. It recently became known that plans for reunification with South Korea have finally been scrapped. (front)