{"id":5784,"date":"2018-09-15T06:05:20","date_gmt":"2018-09-15T06:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=5784"},"modified":"2018-09-16T07:08:10","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T07:08:10","slug":"south-korea-launches-first-missile-capable-submarine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/south-korea-launches-first-missile-capable-submarine\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea launches first missile-capable submarine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea has launched its first ever missile-capable attack submarine despite a recent diplomatic breakthrough with <span style=\"color: #a80000;\"><a style=\"color: #a80000;\" href=\"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/tag\/North-Korea\">North Korea<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The $700 million and 3000-tonne Dosan Ahn Chang-ho submarine is capable of firing both cruise and ballistic missiles and the first of three planned diesel-electric boats to go into service in the next five years.<\/p>\n<p>South Korean President Moon Jae In spoke at the launch ceremony, saying the sub represented a &#8220;leap forward in the country&#8217;s&#8221; defense industry. &#8220;Peace through power is the unwavering security strategy of this government.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Peace is the focus of agenda in future meetings as Moon scheduled to meet his counterpart, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, in the North Korea&#8217;s capital of Pyongyang on September 18 for the third inter-Korean summit this year.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the new vessels,\u00a0South Korea\u00a0has an existing fleet of 18 smaller\u00a0submarines, all built in co-operation with\u00a0Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea has launched its first ever missile-capable attack submarine despite a recent diplomatic breakthrough with North [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[124,1],"tags":[137,5,31,96,95,287],"class_list":["post-5784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-news","tag-asia","tag-military","tag-missile","tag-north-korea","tag-south-korea","tag-submarine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/south-korea-launches-its-first-missile-capable-submarine.jpg?fit=690%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-1vi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5784"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5788,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5784\/revisions\/5788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}