
North Korea has amended its constitution to mandate an automatic nuclear strike if leader Kim Jong Un is assassinated or its command-and-control system is incapacitated, a move triggered in part by the recent Israeli-U.S. killing of Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei. This escalation reflects the accelerating militarisation of nuclear-armed rogue states and the growing instability of global power structures that Scripture warns will characterise the last days. Jesus warned that 'wars and rumours of wars' would mark the end of the age, and the prospect of automated nuclear retaliation without human override aligns with the kind of unrestrained destruction foretold in passages such as Revelation 6 and Matthew 24.