{"id":48324,"date":"2022-09-09T09:42:40","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T00:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/09\/kim-jong-un-says-new-law-guarantees-north-korea-will-never-give-up-nuclear-weapons"},"modified":"2022-09-09T09:42:40","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T00:42:40","slug":"kim-jong-un-says-new-law-guarantees-north-korea-will-never-give-up-nuclear-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48324","title":{"rendered":"Kim Jong-un says new law guarantees North Korea will never give up nuclear weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leader says North Korea\u2019s nuclear status is now \u2018irreversible\u2019, with military allowed to \u2018automatically\u2019 use atomic weapons<\/p>\n<p>North Korea\u2019s leader, Kim Jong-un, says his country will never abandon the nuclear weapons and missiles it needs to counter hostilities from the United States, which he accused of running a pressure campaign aimed at weakening the North\u2019s defences and eventually collapsing his authoritarian government.<\/p>\n<p>State media reported on Friday that Kim made the comments during a speech at North Korea\u2019s rubber-stamp parliament on Thursday, where members also passed a law that authorised North Korea\u2019s military to \u201cautomatically\u201d execute nuclear strikes against enemy forces if its leadership comes under attack.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/09\/kim-jong-un-says-new-law-guarantees-north-korea-will-never-give-up-nuclear-weapons\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leader says North Korea\u2019s nuclear status is now \u2018irreversible\u2019, with military allowed to \u2018automatically\u2019 use atomic weaponsNorth Korea\u2019s leader, Kim Jong-un, says his country will never abandon the nuclear weapons and missiles it needs to counter hosti&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"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":[41,421,40,441,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea","category-nuclear-weapons","category-south-korea","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\/48324","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48324"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48344,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48324\/revisions\/48344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}