{"id":222931,"date":"2016-02-09T16:53:26","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T16:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=222931"},"modified":"2016-02-09T16:53:26","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T16:53:26","slug":"us-using-pyongyang-nuclear-tests-pretext-pivoting-towards-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/us-using-pyongyang-nuclear-tests-pretext-pivoting-towards-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"US using Pyongyang nuclear tests as pretext for pivoting more towards Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>UN sanctions imposed on North Korea over the past decade have failed to prevent Pyongyang from expanding its nuclear and missile programs, a UN panel of experts says, while the US has used the North\u2019s activities as a pretext for expanding its military build-up in Asia. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are serious questions about the efficacy of the current United Nations sanctions regime,&#8221; the experts said in a Monday report.<\/p>\n<p>The report came at a time that the UN Security Council is working on a new sanctions resolution to punish North Korea for its January nuclear test and a Sunday\u00a0rocket launch, which some believe was a disguised ballistic missile test.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Sanctions have not prevented the Democratic People&#8217;s Republic of Korea from gradually improving and expanding its nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities,&#8221; said the report, using the official name of North Korea.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Security Council has imposed four rounds of sanctions on Pyongyang since its first nuclear test in 2006, but the experts said they found &#8220;no indications that the country intends to abandon its nuclear and ballistic missile programs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/02\/09\/449314\/UN-sanctions-North-Korea-nuclear-test-US\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN sanctions imposed on North Korea over the past decade have failed to prevent Pyongyang from expanding its nuclear and missile programs, a UN panel of experts says, while the US has used the North\u2019s activities as a pretext for expanding its military build-up in Asia. &#8220;There are serious questions about the efficacy of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-222931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}