{"id":34659,"date":"2023-09-08T05:29:40","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T05:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=34659"},"modified":"2023-09-08T05:29:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T05:29:43","slug":"kim-jong-un-reveals-nuclear-attack-submarine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=34659","title":{"rendered":"Kim Jong Un reveals &#8216;nuclear attack submarine&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC News:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has held a ceremony to reveal a new submarine, which Pyongyang claims can carry nuclear weapons.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A report in state media said the submarine strengthened the country&#8217;s nuclear deterrent by &#8220;leaps and bounds&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A nuclear-attack submarine has long been on the list of weapons North Korea wants to build.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In photographs released by state media, Mr Kim is standing in a shipyard, surrounded by naval officers, and overshadowed by an enormous black submarine, which the report claimed is capable of launching nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/976\/cpsprodpb\/0C13\/production\/_131019030_mediaitem131018987.jpg\" alt=\"North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends what state media report was a launching ceremony for a new tactical nuclear attack submarine in North Korea\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/976\/cpsprodpb\/751D\/production\/_131018992_mediaitem131018991.jpg\" alt=\"North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends what state media report was a launching ceremony for a new tactical nuclear attack submarine in North Korea\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Kim has been working to develop this submarine for many years, and it is seen as a crucial part of his nuclear weapons programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Submarines are difficult to locate under water, meaning having one could allow Pyongyang to strike its enemies from the sea, after its land weapons had been destroyed in an attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But we don&#8217;t know if this submarine is operational. The North Koreans have yet to demonstrate it can successfully fire nuclear-capable missiles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has held a ceremony to reveal a new submarine, which Pyongyang claims can carry nuclear weapons. A report in state media said the submarine strengthened the country&#8217;s nuclear deterrent by &#8220;leaps and bounds&#8221;. A nuclear-attack submarine has long been on the list of weapons North Korea wants to build. In photographs released by state media, Mr Kim is standing in a shipyard, surrounded by naval officers, and overshadowed by an enormous black submarine, which the report claimed is capable of launching nuclear weapons. Mr Kim has been working to develop this submarine&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34660,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34661,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34659\/revisions\/34661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}