{"id":42805,"date":"2015-02-18T02:32:32","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T18:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=42805"},"modified":"2015-02-18T02:32:32","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T18:32:32","slug":"un-commission-leader-would-be-happy-to-talk-to-nkorea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/02\/18\/un-commission-leader-would-be-happy-to-talk-to-nkorea\/","title":{"rendered":"UN commission leader would be &#8216;happy&#8217; to talk to NKorea"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11588\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11588\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/world-flags-united-nations-UN.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11588\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/world-flags-united-nations-UN.jpg\" alt=\"United Nations (shutterstock)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/world-flags-united-nations-UN.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/world-flags-united-nations-UN-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/world-flags-united-nations-UN-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11588\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">United Nations (shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The leader of a U.N. commission that found North Korea committed crimes against humanity says panel members are ready to go anywhere to talk to the North&#8217;s government \u2014 but it refuses to engage.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Kirby was addressing a conference in Washington Tuesday marking the anniversary of the publication of the commission&#8217;s landmark report. It called for North Korea to be referred to the International Criminal Court.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea on Monday demanded that the conference be scrapped, claiming the U.S. ignored its offer to attend and defend itself.<\/p>\n<p>Kirby said he would be &#8220;quite happy&#8221; if the North Koreans were at the conference. He said the commission &#8220;tried in every way&#8221; to engage Pyongyang, but it was only prepared to do so on &#8220;very limited terms favorable to them.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The leader of a U.N. commission that found North Korea committed crimes against humanity says panel members are &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[483,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","category-news-w","mauthors-the-associated-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42805","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}