{"id":3208,"date":"2018-03-28T22:51:17","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T22:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3208"},"modified":"2018-03-28T22:51:17","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T22:51:17","slug":"south-korea-eyes-french-design-for-indigenous-nuclear-submarine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/03\/28\/south-korea-eyes-french-design-for-indigenous-nuclear-submarine\/","title":{"rendered":"SOUTH KOREA EYES FRENCH DESIGN FOR INDIGENOUS NUCLEAR SUBMARINE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/04\/AUSTRALIA-NEW-SUB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-923\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/04\/AUSTRALIA-NEW-SUB-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/04\/AUSTRALIA-NEW-SUB.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/04\/AUSTRALIA-NEW-SUB-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/04\/AUSTRALIA-NEW-SUB-560x374.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/04\/AUSTRALIA-NEW-SUB-260x173.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/04\/AUSTRALIA-NEW-SUB-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced: Defence News<\/p>\n<p>By: Jeff Jeong<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s Navy is reviewing a plan to build a 5,000-ton nuclear-powered submarine in an effort to boost its deterrence against North Korea\u2019s sub-based nuclear attack capability.<\/p>\n<p>Last October, the service commissioned from the Korea Defense Network five months worth of research on the feasibility of developing an indigenous nuclear-powered attack submarine. The Seoul-based think tank recently reported the results to the Navy, suggesting the service build a nuclear attack submarine modeled after the French 5,300-ton Barracuda-class sub, multiple Navy sources told Defense News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re reviewing the KDN report on indigenous submarine building in a careful manner,\u201d a Navy spokesman said. \u201cAfter thorough review, we\u2019ll report it to the defense minister and the presidential office subsequently for final decision.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced: Defence News By: Jeff Jeong South Korea\u2019s Navy is reviewing a plan to build a 5,000-ton nuclear-powered submarine in an effort to boost its deterrence against North Korea\u2019s sub-based nuclear attack capability. Last October, the service commissioned from the Korea Defense Network five months worth of research on the feasibility of developing an indigenous&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/03\/28\/south-korea-eyes-french-design-for-indigenous-nuclear-submarine\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SOUTH KOREA EYES FRENCH DESIGN FOR INDIGENOUS NUCLEAR SUBMARINE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1824,636],"class_list":["post-3208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-industry","tag-barracuda-class-sub","tag-north-korea","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3209,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3208\/revisions\/3209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}