{"id":269745,"date":"2026-06-04T11:31:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T07:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=269745"},"modified":"2026-06-04T14:42:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T10:42:38","slug":"north-korean-leader-calls-for-exponential-expansion-of-countrys-nuclear-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/269745\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korean leader calls for \u2018exponential\u2019 expansion of country\u2019s nuclear arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

North Korean leader Kim ‌Jong Un called for an “exponential” expansion of the country’s atomic arsenal, Reuters<\/a> writes, referring to state media agency KCNA.<\/p>\n

Kim made the remarks during a visit to a newly operational nuclear material production factory.<\/p>\n

He said production capacity for weapons-grade nuclear material had reached more than double its previous level over the past five years and instructed officials to further ​increase output to meet long-term strategic goals.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

North Korean leader Kim ‌Jong Un called for an “exponential” expansion of the country’s atomic arsenal, Reuters writes, referring to state media agency KCNA. Kim made the remarks during a visit to a newly operational nuclear material production factory. He said production capacity for weapons-grade nuclear material had reached more than double its previous level […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":269644,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269746,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269745\/revisions\/269746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}