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Kim Jong Un Creates Ultimate Deadman Switch: North Korea To Auto-Launch Nukes If Assassinated

North Korea just casually revised its constitution to automatically launch a nuclear strike if leader Kim Jong Un is assassinated, or if the country’s nuclear command-and-control system is placed in danger by hostile forces’ attacks. 

The change was adopted during the first session of the 15th Supreme People’s Assembly in Pyongyang on March 22 and was disclosed this week by South Korea’s National Intelligence Service, which briefed senior officials on the details.

The updated Article 3 of North Korea’s nuclear policy law 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.”

South Korean intelligence officials said the revision codifies procedures for retaliatory nuclear attacks in the event that Kim is killed or incapacitated during an attack, Reuters reports.

The policy update comes months after the assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other senior Iranian officials in U.S.-backed Israeli strikes in February 2026. Analysts have described those operations as a “wake-up call” for Pyongyang, highlighting the effectiveness of leadership-targeted strikes.

Professor Andrei Lankov of Kookmin University in Seoul told The Telegraph that the constitutional emphasis gives added weight to what may have been existing policy: “This may have been policy before, but it has added emphasis now it has been enshrined in the constitution. Iran was the wake-up call.”

The nuclear policy revision was adopted alongside broader changes to North Korea’s constitution, also passed in March and revealed earlier this week. Those amendments remove all references to unification with South Korea, add an explicit territorial clause defining the country’s borders (including with the Republic of Korea to the south), and formally state that command authority over nuclear forces rests with Kim Jong Un as chairman of the State Affairs Commission.

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Four Convicted in Plot That Led to Haitian President Jovenel Moïse’s Assassination

On July 7, 2021, Jovenel Moïse, the 43rd President of Haiti, was assassinated in his private residence in the Pèlerin 5 neighborhood of Pétion-Ville, a suburb of Port-au-Prince.

An armed group of mercenaries, mostly Colombian ex-soldiers plus two Haitian-Americans, stormed his home posing as DEA agents (U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration) to gain access.

Moïse, aged 53, was shot 12 times and severely beaten before his death.

His wife, First Lady Martine Moïse, was shot multiple times but survived. Their children, who were home at the time, were left unharmed.

On Friday, a federal jury in Miami convicted four defendants for their roles in the assassination.

The DOJ shared, “Arcangel Pretel Ortiz, Antonio Intriago, Walter Veintemilla, and James Solages were convicted of conspiracy to provide material support or resources to carry out a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 956, resulting in death; providing material support and resources to carry out a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 956, resulting in death; conspiracy to kill and kidnap a person outside the United States; conspiracy to commit offenses against the United States; and expedition against a friendly nation. Intriago was also convicted of a third count of conspiracy to commit offenses against the U.S.; smuggling goods from the U.S.; and submitting false or misleading export information.”

“According to court records and evidence presented at trial, Pretel Ortiz, Intriago, Veintemilla, and Solages embarked on a scheme in early 2021 to violently overthrow President Moïse and install their handpicked successor so that the defendants could obtain lucrative government contracts in Haiti.”

“To carry out the plot, the defendants recruited allies in the U.S., Colombia, and Haiti, including 22 former Colombian Army soldiers and Haitian gang leaders. Eight of the co-conspirators, including two of the Colombian mercenaries and several of the group’s Haitian and American allies, pleaded guilty for their roles in the conspiracy, and six of them testified at trial.”

All four defendants face maximum penalties of life in prison.

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Trump Links Hakeem Jeffries to WHCA Assassination Attempt, Demands Criminal Charges

President Donald Trump on Thursday linked violent rhetoric flowing from House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to political violence, including the most recent assassination attempt on him.

“This lunatic, Hakeem ‘Low IQ’ Jeffries, should be charged with INCITING VIOLENCE!” Trump posted on Truth Social.

Trump posted an image of Jeffries standing by a photo of Trump that had the words “maximum warfare, everywhere all the time” upon it. Next to that was an image from a video that showed accused gunman Cory Tomas Allen as he arrived at the White House Correspondents Association dinner

“The Radical Left Democrats actually want to Destroy our Country,” Trump posted.

When Jeffiries was asked about the comment he made after the attempt on Trump’s life, he said, “I stand by it,” according to Axios.

Jeffries mocked “so-called criticism from these phony Republicans.”

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Mamdani Berates Billionaire Outside His Residence Near UnitedHealthcare CEO Assassination Site

Citadel CEO Ken Griffin responded to a viral Tax Day video from New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani in which he was filmed outside of the billionaire’s penthouse promising to charge new taxes on the property of wealthy individuals.

The democratic socialist, whose city is facing a budget crisis, released a video on April 15 vowing to impose a new pied-à-terre tax on the non-primary residences of wealthy New Yorkers.

Mamdani is seen in the video on the street outside Griffin’s penthouse, which was purchased in 2019 for $238 million — marking the most expensive home sale in American history, according to a report from Fox Business.

“This is an annual fee on luxury properties worth more than $5 million, whose owners do not live full-time in the city,” Mamdani said in the video.

“Like for this penthouse, which hedge fund CEO Ken Griffin bought for $238 million,” he continued, calling out Griffin by name.

Griffin responded with remarks at an investment conference in Oslo, Norway, saying that he was disturbed by the “personal attack” and the possible security ramifications.

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Judge Agrees to Cancel Comey’s Court Appearance in Trump Assassination Post Case

A federal judge on Thursday agreed to cancel James Comey’s scheduled court appearance on May 11 on criminal charges related to his Trump assassination Instagram post.

Comey asked the North Carolina judge to cancel the court appearance since he already appeared in an Alexandria court.

The Justice Department backed Comey’s request.

US District Judge Louise Flanagan, a George W. Bush appointee agreed to cancel Comey’s appearance.

The Hill reported:

A federal judge in North Carolina conditionally agreed to cancel former FBI Director James Comey’s upcoming court appearance on charges of threatening President Trump at his request and with the government’s support.

Comey asked to call off the hearing because he already made an initial appearance in Alexandria, Va., last week over the allegations. He said that federal criminal procedure rules provide “for an initial appearance in the singular.”

U.S. District Judge Louise Flanagan, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, said she would cancel the initial appearance if Comey files a waiver for the hearing in the district by Friday. She said the hearing would proceed as scheduled if no waiver is filed.

In Comey’s initial request, his attorneys said he would be willing to execute any necessary waiver “to give the Court additional comfort if the Court so desires.”

The Justice Department backed the request, according to Comey’s attorneys.

Comey was under arrest at his arraignment in a federal courthouse in Alexandria, Virginia, last week.

James Comey posted his threatening ‘8647’ Instagram post last May.

“Cool shell formation on my beach walk,” Comey said.

’86 47′ is a threat to ‘eliminate/kill’ the 47th president.

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ABC Reporter Fabricated Trump Call, Made Himself The Focus After Assassination Attempt

President Trump has slammed ABC News chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl for what he calls outright dishonest reporting after Karl inserted himself into the story of the latest assassination attempt on the president.

Karl appeared on ABC’s This Week shortly afterward and claimed Trump had reached out to him personally. “My phone rang shortly after 7 a.m., my landline, George actually. A number that few people call and it was President Trump calling,” Karl told host George Stephanopoulos.

Karl further claimed that Trump “said at first he was calling to see if I was okay with what happened last night. ‘Are you OK?’ And then he reiterated many of the things he said in his press conference last night emphasizing the unity that he felt in that moment that he felt at the dinner before the shooting and certainly after with people who reached out to him… And he was quite firm about this: That dinner must be rescheduled.”

This week, Trump responded directly on Truth Social, blasting the claim as pure fabrication designed to center Karl rather than the president who had just survived another attempt on his life.

“Jonathan Karl, of ABC Fake News, made a statement that I called him early in the morning, the day after the assassination attempt, to ask whether or not HE was OK. No, this was a hit on ME, not HIM, and I didn’t make such a call, why would I do that?” Trump remarked.

The president added, “He called me, but I didn’t take his call — He just confirmed that to me when he called again. I would say that’s very dishonest reporting. He’s trying to make himself look important but, I’m not surprised, because it comes from ABC Fake News!”

This appears to be somewhat deranged behavior from a legacy media figure desperate to remain relevant. Instead of focusing on the security failures, the gunman’s motives, or the president’s resolve, Karl turned the story into a narcissistic fantasy about himself – the brave reporter Trump supposedly felt compelled to check on at 7 a.m. the morning after an attack aimed squarely at the commander-in-chief.

This latest episode fits a long pattern of tension between Trump and ABC News. Readers will recall our earlier coverage of Trump calling out Karl and other ABC figures for biased and obnoxious questioning.

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UnitedHealthcare Learns You Can’t Fix Stupid, Fires Social Media Manager Over Trump Post

When my kids were very young, one of the first words that we banned was “stupid.” No one is stupid, I would tell them; some people just don’t think things through. Well, to borrow from that explanation, I probably didn’t think that all the way through.

While I don’t regret teaching the kids not to use “the S word,” as we used to call it, the older I’ve gotten, I’ve had to face the reality that, yes, some people who otherwise are of sound mind are just stupid. Nowhere is this more evident than on social media. The latest example is a social media manager, of all things, who used to work for UnitedHealthcare. That was until the brass at her employer saw this post of hers, where she gave her take on the most recent assassination attempt on the President of the United States.

Keep in mind, this is a person who gets paid to work as a “professional” in social media, and she’s lacking the good judgment to know you shouldn’t go online to wish harm to someone who’s now had three assassination attempts on his life, and the Secret Service and the FBI both report up to him. Now, that’s stupid. There is no other way to say it.

This dunce’s name is Alison King, and according to Fox News, she was “identified as a social media manager for UnitedHealthcare.” Apparently, she was fired for making a TikTok video where she expressed regret that the president survived this latest attempt on his life, when a shooter targeted President Donald Trump and his administration at the recent White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner.

In the video, King says, “We’re cooked as a country when my first reaction to hearing the news about Trump’s (with a hand motion of a slit throat) attempt was, ‘It was probably fake’…Like, immediately I was like, ‘Oh, that wasn’t real, probably fake.’” She then added sarcastically, “And the second was ‘Aww, they missed? So happy they missed.’ Yeah, that’s sad.’”

Fox News Digital reported that a spokesperson for UnitedHealthcare responded to inquiries about King’s post, saying, “Violence is never acceptable and any comments that suggest otherwise are in no way consistent with our mission and values. The person who made comments online about Saturday night’s incident at a Washington event where President Trump and many other political leaders were gathered is no longer employed by the company.”

Keep in mind, this is a company that on Dec. 4, 2024, lost its own CEO to a successful assassination attempt. That was when Luigi Mangione allegedly pulled a gun and ambushed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson at point-blank range just outside a hotel where Thompson was to attend a business meeting.

You’d think that a social media manager who worked for that company would know that things like assassination attempts, and online chatter about them, are taken quite seriously by the government, by lawyers, by law enforcement agencies —and, oh, by the way, by your own dang employer.

Do you think she might have learned her lesson? You be the judge. 

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Federal Aviation Employee Arrested After Threatening to Assassinate President Trump – Faces Up to Five Years in Prison

A federal aviation employee (FAA) based in New Hampshire stands accused of threatening to take out President Trump just days after the last assassination attempt, but may not be in jail for too long if convicted.

As ABC News reported, federal authorities busted 35-year-old Dean DelleChiaie of Nashua and charged him with communicating an interstate threat.

This news comes less than two weeks after a lunatic tried to take out Trump and members of the administration at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

It also comes less than one week after a Pennsylvania Democratic Senate candidate was arrested for threatening to kill President Trump and members of Congress.

DelleChiaie, a mechanical engineer with the FAA, reportedly first conducted searches on his work computer to find out ways to kill Trump and used it to target the president. He also used it to conduct other disturbing searches, including the percentage of people who want Trump gone, how to get a firearm into a federal facility, previous assassination attempts on the president, and the phrase “I am going to kill Donald John Trump.”

ABC reports that the Secret Service met with DelleChiaie in February, and he admitted to making these threats. DelleChiaie also told officers he was depressed, in therapy, regularly drank, and used marijuana and other drugs.

Yet, he remained a free man. Not surprisingly, he then escalated.

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Leftist Indoctrination Factories Churn Out Would-Be Trump Assassins Every Day

Following the latest assassination attempt on President Donald Trump and members of his administration, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt lambasted both the media and elected members of the Democrat Party for their role in creating a “left-wing cult of hatred” that has legitimized political violence against the president and anyone who supports his policies: “Those who constantly falsely label and slander the president as a fascist, as a threat to democracy, and compare him to Hitler to score political points are fueling this kind of violence.”

This is undoubtedly correct; however, one key component of the “cult of hatred” was missing from Leavitt’s otherwise spot-on analysis: America’s higher education system.

It is this unholy trinity of the media, the Democrat Party, and academia, that has radicalized an entire Manchurian generation against President Trump — and the political right more broadly — in a way that will not disappear once Trump leaves the political arena.

The terrifying truth is that Cole Tomas Allen is not an anomaly or a “lone wolf whack job.” Rather, he is the latest weaponized “resistance” product to roll off the assembly lines of our leftist-infused Media-Democrat-Academia (MDA) industrial complex, with all three working in tandem to produce radicals like Allen.

The Media’s Moral Sanction

The MDA revolutionary feedback loop is primed by a media ecosystem that skews and morally frames news events with leftist bias to produce public outrage which subsequently serves to stir up political violence against their political opposition.

The media accomplishes this through the use of “empathy triggers” to forge continuous narratives that bypass the rational mind and provoke visceral, often violent confrontations and responses, as we saw with the unfortunate death of Renée Good, who took it upon herself to insert herself and her car into an immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis.

Rather than report what actually occurred, the media framed her as someone who had merely dropped off her kid at school before ICE agents shot her for no reason at all.

We also see this in the normalization of the most extreme rhetoric that has found its way into once prestigious institutions such as The New York Times.

In a recent interview featured in the New York Times, radical commentator Hasan Piker — who commands an audience of millions of young people — cited Communist Friedrich Engels to justify Luigi Mangione’s murder of a health insurance executive by framing the assassination as a logical response to the “social murder” he claims is inherent in America’s for-profit healthcare system.

According to Piker, it is seemingly understandable when this “systemic violence,” which is a term found throughout academia, is met with actual, physical violence. 

Incredibly, interviewers Nadja Spiegelman and Jia Tolentino were all too happy to nod along in tacit agreement with Piker’s framing of the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Spiegelman even wondered whether murder in this context could be considered “effective political action” or not.

When the “paper of record” provides a platform for the justification of murder through the lens of Marxist theory, it can serve as the intellectual groundwork for individuals like Cole Allen to act.

Allen’s own written “manifesto” serves as the ultimate proof of this media-driven programming. In one passage, Allen wrote: “And I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.”

These are not the original thoughts of a lone madman; they are parroted chyrons from cable news, late-night talk shows, and viral headlines from America’s “resistance” media.

That resistance media marches in lockstep with the Democrat Party, and that lockstep begins at the top.

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DC Judge APOLOGISES To Alleged Trump ASSASSIN

A federal magistrate judge in Washington, D.C., has come under fire after expressing deep concern – described by multiple outlets as an apology – over the custody conditions of Cole Tomas Allen, the 31-year-old accused of attempting to assassinate President Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner on April 25.

The judge’s remarks, captured in court and widely circulated on X, have ignited accusations of a two-tier justice system that coddles violent attackers while everyday Americans watch their rights erode.

According to reports from the emergency hearing, U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui voiced serious worries about Allen’s placement in restrictive custody following the shooting incident.

Fox News reported that “The judge is very concerned about his constitutional rights, saying the defendant has requested meetings with his legal team, and that has not been allowed. He’s been put in a restrictive 24-hour lockup with no windows in a padded room without an opportunity to get out for recreation.”

“He has been put on su*cide watch by the Department of Corrections, and the judge was asking why,” the reporter further noted.

Fox News host Larry Kudlow ripped into the development live on air, echoing the growing frustration.

“The judge apologised to this guy, who would’ve sprayed the whole audience?! And killed God knows how many people? Then would’ve taken a shot at the president? We’re apologizing to this guy?! I don’t GET that!”

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