North Korea has updated its constitution to call for a nuclear retaliatory strike if leader Kim Jong Un is killed, according to a report.
The Telegraph reported that the change comes amid heightened global tensions following the assassination of Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, and other officials during a recent conflict.
Khamenei was killed in an Israeli strike in Tehran as part of a coordinated US-Israeli military operation earlier this year, Fox News Digital previously reported.
The constitutional revision was approved during a session of North Korea's Supreme People's Assembly, which opened on March 22 in Pyongyang, media said.
South Korea's National Intelligence Service (NIS) briefed senior government officials this week on the update, according to the report.
The revised policy outlines procedures for retaliatory action if North Korea's leadership is incapacitated or assassinated, the Telegraph reports.
"If the command and control system over the state's nuclear forces is jeopardized by attacks by hostile forces... a nuclear attack will be launched automatically and immediately," the updated provision states.
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