{"id":24087,"date":"2026-08-22T05:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T05:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=24087"},"modified":"2026-08-22T05:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T05:47:08","slug":"south-korea-north-korea-has-up-to-120-nuclear-warheads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/08\/22\/south-korea-north-korea-has-up-to-120-nuclear-warheads\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea: North Korea has up to 120 nuclear warheads"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: South Korea\u2019s Defense Ministry says North Korea is estimated to possess between 80 and 120 nuclear warheads, based on assessments by private research institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South Korean Defense Minister An Gyu-baek told a parliamentary session that the assessments indicate North Korea has expanded its nuclear stockpile and increased the number of nuclear warheads in its arsenal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest estimate is higher than a previous figure cited by U.S. President Donald Trump, who said North Korea had around 75 nuclear warheads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has repeatedly warned that Pyongyang would use nuclear weapons in response to any attack and has threatened to destroy its adversary completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest assessment comes as Trump is reportedly seeking to meet Kim Jong Un before the end of this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: South Korea\u2019s Defense Ministry says North Korea is estimated to possess between 80 and 120 nuclear warheads, based on assessments by private research institutions. South Korean Defense Minister An Gyu-baek told a parliamentary session that the assessments indicate North Korea has expanded its nuclear stockpile and increased the number of nuclear warheads in its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24087"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24089,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24087\/revisions\/24089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}