{"id":22902,"date":"2026-09-29T11:33:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T11:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/29\/north-korea-us-approval-south-korea-nuclear-submarine-dangerous\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T11:33:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T11:33:16","slug":"north-korea-us-approval-south-korea-nuclear-submarine-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/29\/north-korea-us-approval-south-korea-nuclear-submarine-dangerous\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea Calls U.S. Approval of South Korean Nuclear Submarine Dangerous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea&#8217;s foreign ministry has described U.S. approval for South Korea to build a nuclear-powered submarine as a dangerous move, saying the decision could add to political and military instability in the Asia-Pacific region.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry also claimed that Washington&#8217;s approval is another sign of the United States expanding nuclear technology through the AUKUS agreement. According to the ministry, the United States is pursuing a policy that leads to extreme nuclear militarisation and the collapse of the international nuclear order.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea plans to introduce the submarine in the mid-2030s as part of its efforts to counter North Korea. The two countries reached agreement on building the submarine under a trade deal signed between them last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea says U.S. approval of a South Korean nuclear submarine could increase instability in the Asia-Pacific region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}