{"id":175731,"date":"2023-11-10T00:44:21","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T06:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/north-korea-is-preparing-for-war-with-nuclear-weapons-buildup"},"modified":"2023-11-10T00:44:21","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T06:44:21","slug":"north-korea-is-preparing-for-war-with-nuclear-weapons-buildup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/north-korea-is-preparing-for-war-with-nuclear-weapons-buildup","title":{"rendered":"North Korea is \u201cpreparing\u201d for war with nuclear weapons buildup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/north-korea-is-preparing-for-war-with-nuclear-weapons-buildup2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>North Korean leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/topic\/kim-jong-un\" class=\"\">Kim Jong Un<\/a> is \u201cseriously preparing\u201d for war as it builds its nuclear weapons arsenal, according to an expert on Korean history.<\/p>\n<p>After decades of international pressure attempting to stop its development of nuclear weapons, North Korea announced during the administration of former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/topic\/george-w.-bush\" class=\"\">George W. Bush<\/a> that it was conducting nuclear tests and had weapons. The country now has an arsenal that includes an estimated 35 to 63 warheads, according to the Institute for Science and International Security.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview published by <em>The Financial Times<\/em> on Thursday, Kookmin University history professor Andrei Lankov said that Kim had been emboldened to build the nuclear arsenal due to Western leaders failing to take advantage of earlier opportunities to pressure the regime, wrongly believing that the nuclear program was not \u201ca realistic threat.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is \u201cseriously preparing\u201d for war as it builds its nuclear weapons arsenal, according to an expert on Korean history. After decades of international pressure attempting to stop its development of nuclear weapons, North Korea announced during the administration of former President George W. Bush that it was conducting nuclear [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks","category-military","category-nuclear-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}