{"id":74971,"date":"2025-10-30T09:34:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T00:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/30\/trump-gives-south-korea-permission-to-build-nuclear-powered-submarine"},"modified":"2025-10-30T09:34:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T00:34:00","slug":"trump-gives-south-korea-permission-to-build-nuclear-powered-submarine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74971","title":{"rendered":"Trump gives South Korea permission to build nuclear-powered submarine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump\u2019s decision to allow South Korea to build a nuclear-powered submarine will admit Seoul to a small club of nations possessing such vessels<\/p>\n<p>US president Donald Trump has given approval for South Korea to build a nuclear-powered submarine, a move that would admit Seoul to a small club of nations possessing such vessels.<\/p>\n<p>Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/29\/trump-heads-to-south-korea-amid-deadlocked-trade-talks-over-350bn-deal-on-tariffs\">met South Korean counterpart Lee Jae Myung <\/a>on Wednesday in the southern town of Gyeongju, where the US leader arrived for a summit ahead of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/30\/apec-asia-pacific-economic-cooperation-explained\">Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/30\/trump-gives-south-korea-permission-to-build-nuclear-powered-submarine\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump\u2019s decision to allow South Korea to build a nuclear-powered submarine will admit Seoul to a small club of nations possessing such vesselsUS president Donald Trump has given approval for South Korea to build a nuclear-powered submarine, a move that&#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":[1192,2346,415,570,222,554],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apec-summit","category-aukus","category-donald-trump","category-nuclear-power","category-south-korea","category-trump-administration"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74971","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=74971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74973,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74971\/revisions\/74973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}