{"id":151713,"date":"2018-02-07T22:32:57","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T03:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=151713"},"modified":"2018-02-07T22:32:57","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T03:32:57","slug":"south-korea-asks-un-for-sanctions-exemption-for-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/02\/07\/south-korea-asks-un-for-sanctions-exemption-for-north-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea asks UN for sanctions exemption for North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_151717\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-151717\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2016-MTCR-Chair-300x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-151717\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2016-MTCR-Chair-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"FILE: Charge d'affaires Ham Sang Wook says the participation of the 23-member delegation \u201cwill serve as a timely opportunity to reduce tensions on the Korean Peninsula and beyond.\u201d (Photo: http:\/\/mtcr.info)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2016-MTCR-Chair-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2016-MTCR-Chair-300x300-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-151717\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Charge d&#8217;affaires Ham Sang Wook says the participation of the 23-member delegation \u201cwill serve as a timely opportunity to reduce tensions on the Korean Peninsula and beyond.\u201d (Photo: http:\/\/mtcr.info)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>South Korea has asked the United Nations to grant a sanctions exemption to the high-level delegation from North Korea coming to the Olympics that includes one official subject to a travel ban and asset freeze.<\/p>\n<p>Charge d&#8217;affaires Ham Sang Wook says the participation of the 23-member delegation \u201cwill serve as a timely opportunity to reduce tensions on the Korean Peninsula and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He says in a letter to the U.N. Security Council committee monitoring sanctions that the delegation is expected to attend the opening ceremony in Pyeongchang and engage in \u201chigh-level inter-Korean dialogue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One member is to be Choe Hwi, who is identified on the U.N. sanctions blacklist as a senior Workers&#8217; Party propaganda official. But on the delegation list he is identified as a top sports official.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea has asked the United Nations to grant a sanctions exemption to the high-level delegation from North Korea coming &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":151717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[1509,46149,2222,1746],"class_list":["post-151713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","tag-north-korea","tag-sanctions-exemption","tag-south-korea","tag-united-nations","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151713","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=151713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}