{"id":49223,"date":"2022-10-10T11:38:46","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T02:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/10\/north-korea-says-missile-tests-simulated-striking-south-with-tactical-nuclear-weapons"},"modified":"2022-10-10T11:38:46","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T02:38:46","slug":"north-korea-says-missile-tests-simulated-striking-south-with-tactical-nuclear-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49223","title":{"rendered":"North Korea says missile tests simulated striking South with tactical nuclear weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Jong-un said his forces were \u201ccompletely ready to hit and destroy targets at any time from any location\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/15\/north-and-south-korea-tensions-relations-issue-conflict-division-explained-in-30-seconds\">North and South Korea tensions explained in 30 seconds<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>North Korea\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/08\/north-korea-has-fired-ballistic-missile-says-seoul\">recent flurry of missile tests<\/a> demonstrated its ability to carry out strikes with tactical nuclear weapons, its leader, Kim Jong-un, has said, adding that his forces were \u201ccompletely ready to hit and destroy targets at any time from any location\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Kim, who <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\">last month said the North\u2019s transformation into a nuclear power was \u201cirreversible,\u201d<\/a> said the drills were \u201can obvious warning and clear demonstration\u201d to the country\u2019s enemies.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/10\/north-korea-says-missile-tests-simulated-striking-south-with-tactical-nuclear-weapons\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Jong-un said his forces were \u201ccompletely ready to hit and destroy targets at any time from any location\u201dNorth and South Korea tensions explained in 30 secondsNorth Korea\u2019s recent flurry of missile tests demonstrated its ability to carry out strikes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"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-49223","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\/49223","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\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49223"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49244,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49223\/revisions\/49244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}