{"id":76662,"date":"2026-03-10T11:09:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T02:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/10\/north-korea-nuclear-weapons-trump-iran-war"},"modified":"2026-03-10T11:09:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T02:09:40","slug":"trumps-iran-war-will-reinforce-north-koreas-view-that-nuclear-weapons-are-the-only-path-to-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76662","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Iran war will reinforce North Korea\u2019s view that nuclear weapons are the only path to security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As speculation mounts that Kim Jong-un and Trump could meet this month, analysts say Pyongyang will continue to see nuclear weapons as a matter of survival<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/mar\/10\/iran-war-live-updates-iranian-supreme-leader-mojtaba-khamenei-middle-east-tehran-oil-prices-latest-news\">Middle East crisis \u2013 live updates<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>North Korea\u2019s launch last week of a missile from a naval destroyer elicited an uncharacteristically prosaic analysis from the country\u2019s leader, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/kim-jong-un\">Kim Jong-un<\/a>. The launch was proof, he said, that arming ships with nuclear weapons was \u201cmaking satisfactory progress\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>But the test, and Kim\u2019s mildly upbeat appraisal, were designed to reverberate well beyond the deck of the 5,000-tonne destroyer-class vessel the Choe Hyon \u2013 the biggest warship in the North Korean fleet.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/10\/north-korea-nuclear-weapons-trump-iran-war\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As speculation mounts that Kim Jong-un and Trump could meet this month, analysts say Pyongyang will continue to see nuclear weapons as a matter of survivalMiddle East crisis \u2013 live updates North Korea\u2019s launch last week of a missile from a naval destro&#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":[41,448,40,441,3510,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-iran","category-north-korea","category-nuclear-weapons","category-us-israel-war-on-iran","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\/76662","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=76662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76663,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76662\/revisions\/76663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}