{"id":15164,"date":"2003-03-11T14:33:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-11T14:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/11\/north-koreas-iraqs-irans-nuclear-threat\/"},"modified":"2003-03-11T14:33:00","modified_gmt":"2003-03-11T14:33:00","slug":"north-koreas-iraqs-irans-nuclear-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/11\/north-koreas-iraqs-irans-nuclear-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea&#8217;s Iraq&#8217;s Iran&#8217;s Nuclear Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <i>The Washington Post<\/i>, &ldquo;&rsquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A2677-2003Mar9.html\" target=\"_blank\">Startling&rsquo; Progress at [an Iranian nuclear] complex<\/a> poses a challenge to the Bush administration at a delicate time.&rdquo;  I think that&rsquo;s quite an understatement considering the current situation in Iraq, and more importantly in my mind, in North Korea.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/world\/article\/0,8599,430649,00.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Time Magazine<\/i> is also covering the story<\/a>, making the obvious observation that &ldquo;The new discoveries could destabilize a region already dangerously on edge in anticipation of war in Iraq.&rdquo;  I&rsquo;m curious to see how W will handle this situation, especially whether he will play it off as flippantly as he has the crisis in North Korea.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-90521654?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to The Washington Post, &ldquo;&rsquo;Startling&rsquo; Progress at [an Iranian nuclear] complex poses a challenge to the Bush administration at a delicate time.&rdquo; I think that&rsquo;s quite an understatement considering the current situation in Iraq, and more importantly in my mind, in North Korea. Time Magazine is also covering the story, making the obvious observation &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/11\/north-koreas-iraqs-irans-nuclear-threat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;North Korea&#8217;s Iraq&#8217;s Iran&#8217;s Nuclear Threat&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-15164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}