{"id":67659,"date":"2024-11-05T09:34:03","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T00:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/04\/north-korea-tells-un-it-is-speeding-up-nuclear-weapons-programme"},"modified":"2024-11-05T09:34:03","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T00:34:03","slug":"north-korea-tells-un-it-is-speeding-up-nuclear-weapons-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67659","title":{"rendered":"North Korea tells UN it is speeding up nuclear weapons programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pyongyang\u2019s envoy to the United Nations says buildup is to counter threat from \u2018hostile nuclear weapons states\u2019<\/p>\n<p>North Korea\u2019s UN envoy has said Pyongyang will accelerate a buildup of its nuclear weapons programme just days after it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/31\/north-korea-missile-test-record-height-icbm-japan\">test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile<\/a> for the first time this year at a moment of rising tensions with the west.<\/p>\n<p>Kim Song, North Korea\u2019s ambassador to the UN, said during a security council meeting on Monday that Pyongyang would accelerate the programme to \u201ccounter any threat presented by hostile nuclear weapons states\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/04\/north-korea-tells-un-it-is-speeding-up-nuclear-weapons-programme\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pyongyang\u2019s envoy to the United Nations says buildup is to counter threat from \u2018hostile nuclear weapons states\u2019North Korea\u2019s UN envoy has said Pyongyang will accelerate a buildup of its nuclear weapons programme just days after it test-fired an interco&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4472,"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":[41,40,441,419,930,84,47,818,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-north-korea","category-nuclear-weapons","category-russia","category-ukraine","category-united-nations","category-us-news","category-vladimir-putin","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\/67659","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\/4472"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67660,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67659\/revisions\/67660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}