{"id":1492,"date":"2005-02-10T02:38:02","date_gmt":"2005-02-10T07:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/02\/more_nonsurprising_news\/"},"modified":"2005-02-10T02:38:02","modified_gmt":"2005-02-10T07:38:02","slug":"more_nonsurprising_news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/02\/more_nonsurprising_news\/","title":{"rendered":"More Non-Surprising &#8220;News&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=W4JRNILKEUXO2CRBAEKSFEY?type=topNews&#038;storyID=7588568\"> has nukes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>North Korea said on Thursday that it had manufactured nuclear weapons for its self-defense and was suspending participation in six-way talks on its atomic arms program for an &#8220;indefinite period.&#8221;<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\nIn North Korea&#8217;s clearest statement yet that it already possesses nuclear arms, the official KCNA news agency quoted a Foreign Ministry spokesman as saying:<br \/>\n&#8220;We had already taken the resolute action of pulling out of the NPT (Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty) and have manufactured nukes to cope with the Bush administration&#8217;s evermore undisguised policy to isolate and stifle the DPRK (North Korea).<br \/>\n&#8220;Its nuclear weapons will remain nuclear deterrent for self-defense under any circumstances,&#8221; the statement added.<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\n&#8220;We have wanted the six-party talks but we are compelled to suspend our participation in the talks for an indefinite period till we have recognized that there is justification for us to attend the talks and there are ample conditions and atmosphere to expect positive results from the talks,&#8221; the spokesman was quoted as saying.<br \/>\n&#8220;The Bush administration termed the DPRK, its dialogue partner, an outpost of tyranny, putting into the shade its hostile policy, and totally rejected it,&#8221; the spokesman said.<br \/>\n&#8220;This deprived the DPRK of any justification to participate in the six-party talks,&#8221; the spokesman added. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bush diplomacy is working spendedly, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/02\/more_nonsurprising_news\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to More Non-Surprising &#8220;News&#8221;\"><p>North Korea has nukes: North Korea said on Thursday that it had manufactured nuclear weapons for its self-defense and was suspending participation in six-way talks on its atomic arms program for an &#8220;indefinite period.&#8221; . . . In North Korea&#8217;s clearest statement yet that it already possesses nuclear arms, the official KCNA news agency quoted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1492","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}