{"id":74885,"date":"2025-10-23T10:07:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T01:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/23\/south-korea-monster-missile-hyunmoo-5-balance-power-north"},"modified":"2025-10-23T10:07:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T01:07:49","slug":"what-is-south-koreas-monster-missile-and-what-does-it-mean-for-relations-with-the-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74885","title":{"rendered":"What is South Korea\u2019s \u2018monster missile\u2019, and what does it mean for relations with the North?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hyunmoo-5 \u2018bunker buster\u2019 missile can reportedly carry an eight-tonne warhead and will be ready for deployment at the end of the year<\/p>\n<p>South Korea has said it will begin deploying its largest ballistic missile yet at the end of the year \u2013 a projectile known as the \u201cmonster missile\u201d by local media \u2013 marking a significant upgrade of its conventional arsenal as tensions rise with nuclear-armed North Korea.<\/p>\n<p>Defence minister Ahn Gyu-back recently told Yonhap News that South Korea must build a \u201cconsiderable\u201d number of the Hyunmoo-5 missiles in order to \u201cachieve a balance of terror\u201d in the face of the threat posed by the North, and that a next-generation missile with even greater power is needed.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/23\/south-korea-monster-missile-hyunmoo-5-balance-power-north\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hyunmoo-5 \u2018bunker buster\u2019 missile can reportedly carry an eight-tonne warhead and will be ready for deployment at the end of the yearSouth Korea has said it will begin deploying its largest ballistic missile yet at the end of the year \u2013 a projectil&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2929,"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":[41,40,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-north-korea","category-south-korea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74885","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\/2929"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74886,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74885\/revisions\/74886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}