What is OPLAN 5029? The 'Mission Impossible'-style plan in place to secure North Korea's nukes

   

Interactive News 2020

 

Published on May 2, 2020

Even though North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un popped up at a fertilizer plant on Friday, speculation has been rampant about his health and the stability of the notoriously unstable nuclear-armed country.

Intelligence officials from Texas to Taiwan weighed in on the health of Pyongyang's basketball-loving leader, with some speculating he was in a vegetative state after receiving a botched heart operation. Others claimed he was wounded by an explosion from a missile test while another chalked up his 20-day disappearance from the public eye as Kim just being Kim.

But if the rumors had been true and the dictator did die - or was on the verge of dying - what would happen to the cache of nuclear weapons and missiles the country has bragged about?


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