{"id":100743,"date":"2017-05-02T22:49:52","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T02:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=100743"},"modified":"2017-05-02T22:52:14","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T02:52:14","slug":"100743","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/05\/02\/100743\/","title":{"rendered":"NoKor speeds up nuke program"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_89232\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89232\" style=\"width: 201px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/missile.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-89232\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/missile-201x300.png\" alt=\"A North Korean Mid-Range Ballistic Missile Apparently Failed Shortly After Launch Saturday, South Korea And The United States Said, The Third Test-Fire Flop Just This Month But A Clear Message Of Defiance As A U.S. Supercarrier Conducts Drills In Nearby Waters. (Photo: U.S. Missile Defense Agency \/Flickr)\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/missile-201x300.png 201w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/missile.png 273w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-89232\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A North Korean Mid-Range Ballistic Missile Apparently Failed Shortly After Launch Saturday, South Korea And The United States Said, The Third Test-Fire Flop Just This Month But A Clear Message Of Defiance As A U.S. Supercarrier Conducts Drills In Nearby Waters.<br \/>(Photo: U.S. Missile Defense Agency<br \/>\/Flickr)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In response to the United States\u2019 aggressive actions towards Pyongyang, the Foreign Ministry of North Korea had announced that it will speed up its nuclear program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">North Korea\u2019s U.N. Mission had circulated a statement from North Korea\u2019s Spokesman made on Monday, calling the U.S.-South Korean military drills a \u201cU.S. aggression hysteria\u201d and that it has reached its highest point. It was also announced that Pyongyang is already \u201con the brink of nuclear war.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pyongyang also threatened that it \u201cwill continue to bolster its military capabilities for self-defense and preemptive nuclear attack\u201d unless the U.S. ends its \u201chostile policy\u201d to bring an armed attack against the hermit nation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It has been previously reported that U.S. President Donald Trump is considering to not only enforce more sanctions on North Korea but to also \u201cengage\u201d in a possible military offensive action.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the United States\u2019 aggressive actions towards Pyongyang, the Foreign Ministry of North Korea had announced that it &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":89232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,483,17],"tags":[1509,18609,1746,10176],"class_list":["post-100743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-politics","category-news-w","tag-north-korea","tag-nuclear-warfare","tag-united-nations","tag-united-states-of-america","mauthors-phoebe-balubar","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}