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29 Oct 25. US will share tech to let South Korea build nuclear submarine: Trump. 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’s president. President Lee Jae Myung stressed to Trump in their Wednesday meeting 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. 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. Lee said that if South Korea was equipped with nuclear-powered submarines, that it could help U.S. activities in the region. 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’s Hanwha Group. 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 $150bn to invest in America’s shipbuilding capacity. 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 the United Kingdom and Australia to help the latter acquire nuclear submarine technology doesn’t feature the U.S. directly transferring its knowledge. Trump’s post on social media comes ahead of his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, whose country possesses nuclear submarines, and after North Korea in March unveiled for the first time a nuclear-powered submarine under construction. It is a weapons system that can pose a major security threat to South Korea and the U.S. As Trump visited South Korea, North Korea said Wednesday that it conducted successful cruise missile tests, the latest display of its growing military capabilities. Pentagon officials didn’t immediately respond to questions about Trump’s announcement on sharing the nuclear sub technology with South Korea. (Source: Defense News)
30 Oct 25. Legal challenges to National Guard deployments sustain elevated domestic unrest risks. On 29 October, the Portland (Oregon) police testified that US President Donald Trump’s order to deploy National Guard troops has inflamed protests and increased violence. This testimony was given in a trial aiming to determine whether demonstrations outside immigration detention facilities constitute a rebellion or prevent federal agents from enforcing the law, thereby justifying a military deployment. Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening alleged that federal agents have used excessive force to drive demonstrators away from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) headquarters building. Furthermore, on 29 October, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) requested more information from the Trump administration and from Illinois officials to assess whether the administration can deploy hundreds of National Guard troops in Chicago (Illinois). Also on 29 October, US officials signalled that the National Guard is planning to train hundreds of troops in each state in order to create a rapid response force focused on civil disturbance missions in 2026. These developments underscore elevated judiciary-executive branch tensions related to National Guard deployments. In the near term, these tensions will likely sustain elevated domestic unrest risks in Democratic-led urban centres, specifically targeting ICE facilities and personnel. (Source: Sibylline)
30 Oct 25. Trump tells Pentagon to immediately resume testing US nuclear weapons.
- Summary
- Decision follows China’s nuclear stockpile expansion
- Russia’s recent nuclear tests include Poseidon super torpedo
- China’s arsenal expected to exceed 1,000 by 2030, CSIS says
U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. military on Thursday to immediately resume testing nuclear weapons after a gap of 33 years, minutes before beginning a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Trump made the surprise announcement on Truth Social while he was aboard his Marine One helicopter flying to meet Xi for a trade negotiating session in Busan, South Korea. He said he was instructing the Pentagon to test the U.S. nuclear arsenal on an “equal basis” with other nuclear powers. (Source: Reuters)
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