{"id":51598,"date":"2023-01-01T10:14:35","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T01:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/01\/kim-jong-un-north-korea-exponentially-increase-nuclear-warhead-production"},"modified":"2023-01-01T10:14:35","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T01:14:35","slug":"kim-jong-un-vows-to-exponentially-increase-nuclear-warhead-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51598","title":{"rendered":"Kim Jong-un vows to \u2018exponentially\u2019 increase nuclear warhead production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Korean leader marks New Year with fresh ballistic missile launch just hours into 2023<\/p>\n<p>Kim Jong-un has vowed to ramp up the production of nuclear warheads and build a more powerful intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), while singling out South Korea as his country\u2019s \u201cundoubted enemy\u201d, North Korean state media reported on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>In a sign of deepening animosity towards the US, South Korea and Japan, Kim called for an \u201cexponential increase\u201d in the regime\u2019s nuclear arsenal during an address at a plenary meeting of the ruling Workers\u2019 party that ended on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/01\/kim-jong-un-north-korea-exponentially-increase-nuclear-warhead-production\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korean leader marks New Year with fresh ballistic missile launch just hours into 2023Kim Jong-un has vowed to ramp up the production of nuclear warheads and build a more powerful intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), while singling out South&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3326,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea","category-nuclear-weapons"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51598","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\/3326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51599,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51598\/revisions\/51599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}