{"id":259707,"date":"2025-10-30T00:12:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T00:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/259707\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T00:12:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T00:12:18","slug":"us-will-share-tech-to-let-south-korea-build-nuclear-submarine-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/259707\/","title":{"rendered":"US will share tech to let South Korea build nuclear submarine: Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

GYEONGJU, South Korea \u2014 The United States will share closely held technology to allow South Korea to build a nuclear-powered submarine, President Donald Trump said on social media Thursday after meeting with the country\u2019s president<\/a>.<\/p>\n

President Lee Jae Myung stressed to Trump in their Wednesday meeting<\/a> that the goal was to modernize the alliance with the U.S., noting plans to increase military spending to reduce the financial burden on America.<\/p>\n

The South Korean leader said there might have been a misunderstanding when they last spoke in August about nuclear-powered submarines, saying that his government was looking for nuclear fuel rather than weapons.<\/p>\n

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Lee said that if South Korea was equipped with nuclear-powered submarines, that it could help U.S. activities in the region.<\/p>\n

Trump said in a separate post that the country would build its nuclear-powered submarine in the Philly Shipyard, which was bought last year by South Korea\u2019s Hanwha Group.<\/p>\n

It was unclear what the size or cost of the sub project would be, but South Korea had said as part of talks with Trump that it had committed $150 billion to invest in America\u2019s shipbuilding capacity<\/a>.<\/p>\n

U.S. nuclear submarine technology is widely regarded as some of the most sensitive and highly guarded technology the military possesses. The U.S. has been incredibly protective of that knowledge, and even a recently announced deal with close allies<\/a> the United Kingdom and Australia to help the latter acquire nuclear submarine technology doesn\u2019t feature the U.S. directly transferring its knowledge.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s post on social media comes ahead of his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, whose country possesses nuclear submarines<\/a>, and after North Korea in March unveiled for the first time a nuclear-powered submarine<\/a> under construction. It is a weapons system that can pose a major security threat to South Korea and the U.S.<\/p>\n

As Trump visited South Korea, North Korea said Wednesday that it conducted successful cruise missile tests<\/a>, the latest display of its growing military capabilities.<\/p>\n

Pentagon officials didn\u2019t immediately respond to questions about Trump\u2019s announcement on sharing the nuclear sub technology with South Korea.<\/p>\n

Boak reported from Tokyo. Associated Press writer Konstantin Toropin contributed to this report from Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GYEONGJU, South Korea \u2014 The United States will share closely held technology to allow South Korea to build…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3995,4424,4427,29909,38822,4428,4423,3,20210,1866,3479,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-259707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-asia","tag-circulated-defense-news","tag-circulated-military-times","tag-circulated-navy-times","tag-defense-tech","tag-defense-news","tag-dn-dnr","tag-news","tag-nuclear-submarine","tag-south-korea","tag-trump","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}