{"id":77045,"date":"2026-04-15T16:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T07:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/15\/north-korea-nuclear-weapons-capability-un-watchdog-rafael-grossi"},"modified":"2026-04-15T16:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T07:51:09","slug":"north-korea-rapidly-expanding-nuclear-weapons-capability-un-watchdog-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=77045","title":{"rendered":"North Korea rapidly expanding nuclear weapons capability, UN watchdog warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pyongyang making \u2018very serious\u2019 progress on producing weapons, with rapid rise in activity at main nuclear complex<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/north-korea\">North Korea<\/a> has made \u201cvery serious\u201d progress in its ability to produce more nuclear weapons, the head of the UN\u2019s nuclear watchdog has warned, in another sign that the regime is seeking to use its nuclear arsenal to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/10\/north-korea-nuclear-weapons-trump-iran-war\">ensure its survival<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea is thought to have assembled about 50 nuclear warheads, although some experts are sceptical of its claims that it is able to miniaturise them so they can be attached to long-range ballistic missiles.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/15\/north-korea-nuclear-weapons-capability-un-watchdog-rafael-grossi\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pyongyang making \u2018very serious\u2019 progress on producing weapons, with rapid rise in activity at main nuclear complexNorth Korea has made \u201cvery serious\u201d progress in its ability to produce more nuclear weapons, the head of the UN\u2019s nuclear watchdog has war&#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":[41,1092,40,441,222,84,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-international-atomic-energy-agency-iaea","category-north-korea","category-nuclear-weapons","category-south-korea","category-united-nations","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\/77045","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=77045"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77055,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77045\/revisions\/77055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}