{"id":91510,"date":"2025-12-25T11:30:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T06:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=91510"},"modified":"2025-12-25T11:30:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T06:30:52","slug":"north-koreas-kim-oversees-test-firing-of-high-altitude-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/north-koreas-kim-oversees-test-firing-of-high-altitude-missile\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea\u2019s Kim oversees test-firing of high-altitude \u200bmissile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim \u200bJong Un oversaw the test-firing on Wednesday of a long-range surface-to-air missile at a launch site near its east coast, state media KCNA reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The test, aimed at assessing the country\u2019s strategic technology \u200cfor developing \u200ca new type \u200cof \u2060high-altitude \u200bmissile, destroyed \u200ctargets in the air from 200 km (124 miles) away, KCNA said.<\/p>\n<p>Kim also observed construction work at a separate site on an 8,700-ton nuclear-powered submarine capable of launching surface-to-air missiles, KCNA said. \u2060It did not identify the location or the \u200cdate of his visit.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200dsubmarine project is \u200dpart of the North Korean \u200druling party\u2019s effort to modernize the country\u2019s Navy, one of five key policies the party is pushing to develop its \u200bdefense capabilities, KCNA said.<\/p>\n<p>Kim was quoted as saying that the all-out \u2060development of nuclear capabilities and modernization of the Navy are essential and inevitable, while \u201cthe present world is by no means peaceful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kim also said South Korea\u2019s plan for developing a nuclear submarine, agreed with Washington, would further inflame tensions on the Korean Peninsula and poses a risk to national security that \u200crequires him to take action. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim \u200bJong Un oversaw the test-firing on Wednesday of a long-range surface-to-air missile at a launch site near its east coast, state media KCNA reported on Thursday. The test, aimed at assessing the country\u2019s strategic technology \u200cfor developing \u200ca new type \u200cof \u2060high-altitude \u200bmissile, destroyed \u200ctargets in the air from 200 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":91521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91522,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91510\/revisions\/91522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}