{"id":15214,"date":"2003-02-17T13:44:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-17T13:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/02\/17\/ws-ignoring-north-korea-why\/"},"modified":"2003-02-17T13:44:00","modified_gmt":"2003-02-17T13:44:00","slug":"ws-ignoring-north-korea-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/02\/17\/ws-ignoring-north-korea-why\/","title":{"rendered":"W&#8217;s Ignoring North Korea Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;ve been wondering for some time now why W has been playing down the issues of North Korean nuclear capabilities, especially considering how unstable and aggressive North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il is.  Granted, there has been a lot of North Korean propaganda and rhetoric, but the region is way too volatile to simply blow off.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/east\/02\/17\/nkorea.nuclear\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">CNN reports on the latest, and perhaps scariest, entry in North Korea&rsquo;s &ldquo;verbal barrage,&rdquo;<\/a> one that just maybe W should listen to: &ldquo;Victory in a nuclear conflict will be ours and the red flag of army-first politics will flutter ever more vigorously&hellip;Our victory is certain and the future ever more radiant.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-90333855?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;ve been wondering for some time now why W has been playing down the issues of North Korean nuclear capabilities, especially considering how unstable and aggressive North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il is. Granted, there has been a lot of North Korean propaganda and rhetoric, but the region is way too volatile to simply blow off. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/02\/17\/ws-ignoring-north-korea-why\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;W&#8217;s Ignoring North Korea Why?&#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-15214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}