May 12th, 2026: Tehran’s Internet Blackout Is Backfiring & North Korea’s Dead Man’s Switch

The President's Daily Brief · May 12, 2026 · 21m

In this episode of The President's Daily Brief: Iran’s months-long internet blackout is exposing growing cracks inside the regime itself, as politically connected elites reportedly receive privileged online access through controversial “white SIM cards” while millions of ordinary citizens remain digitally cut off from the outside world. North Korea reportedly adopts a chilling new constitutional provision requiring automatic nuclear retaliation if Kim Jong Un is assassinated, raising fresh concerns about a potential “nuclear dead man’s switch” inside the isolated regime. An international…