{"id":55848,"date":"2024-09-10T15:40:16","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T05:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=55848"},"modified":"2024-09-10T15:40:16","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T05:40:16","slug":"north-koreas-kim-vows-to-increase-nuclear-weapons-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=55848","title":{"rendered":"North Korea&#8217;s Kim vows to increase nuclear weapons arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said the country was moving to steadily increase its nuclear arsenal, state media reported Tuesday, claiming that Pyongyang was a &#8220;responsible&#8221; nuclear state.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kim made a speech for an event to mark the 76th anniversary of the country&#8217;s founding, with state media images showing thousands of people gathering in central Pyongyang to celebrate.<\/p>\n<p>Due to what Kim characterised as &#8220;more various threats&#8221; from the United States and its allies, North Korea&#8217;s &#8220;nuclear force&#8221; and its ability to deploy it &#8220;should be more thoroughly perfected&#8221;, he said.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea &#8220;will steadily strengthen its nuclear force capable of fully coping with any threatening acts imposed by its nuclear-armed rival states&#8221;, Kim said.<\/p>\n<p>The country will also &#8220;redouble its measures and efforts to make all the armed forces of the state, including the nuclear force, fully ready for combat&#8221;, he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said the country was moving to steadily increase its nuclear arsenal, state media reported Tuesday, claiming that Pyongyang was a &#8220;responsible&#8221; nuclear state. Kim made a speech for an event to mark the 76th anniversary of the country&#8217;s founding, with state media images showing thousands of people gathering in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2253],"class_list":["post-55848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-north-koreas-kim-vows-to-increase-nuclear-weapons-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}