{"id":43916,"date":"2022-04-26T17:46:42","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T08:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/26\/kim-jong-un-says-north-korea-will-use-nuclear-weapons-at-any-time-if-threatened"},"modified":"2022-04-26T17:46:42","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T08:46:42","slug":"kim-jong-un-says-north-korea-will-use-nuclear-weapons-at-any-time-if-threatened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43916","title":{"rendered":"Kim Jong-un says North Korea will use nuclear weapons \u2018at any time\u2019 if threatened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leader vows to boost arsenal primarily as deterrent but also against forces that try to \u2018violate\u2019 interests of nation<\/p>\n<p>The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, has vowed to move faster in bolstering his nuclear forces and threatened to use them if provoked in a speech during a military parade that featured powerful weapons systems that could be used to target the country\u2019s rivals.<\/p>\n<p>His remarks suggest he will continue <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/17\/kim-jong-un-oversees-missile-test-that-north-korea-claims-advances-nuclear-program\">provocative weapons tests <\/a>in a pressure campaign to wrest concessions from the US and its allies. The parade on Monday night was to mark the 90th anniversary of North Korea\u2019s army \u2013 the backbone of the Kim family\u2019s authoritarian rule \u2013 and was held as the country\u2019s economy is battered by pandemic-related difficulties, punishing US-led sanctions and its own mismanagement.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/26\/kim-jong-un-says-north-korea-will-use-nuclear-weapons-at-any-time-if-threatened\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leader vows to boost arsenal primarily as deterrent but also against forces that try to \u2018violate\u2019 interests of nationThe North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, has vowed to move faster in bolstering his nuclear forces and threatened to use them if provoked &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":283,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[421,40,441,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea","category-nuclear-weapons","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43917,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43916\/revisions\/43917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}