{"id":300204,"date":"2017-03-22T20:37:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T19:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/ron-paul-asks-is-north-korea-an-imminent-threat\/"},"modified":"2017-03-22T20:37:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T19:37:06","slug":"ron-paul-asks-is-north-korea-an-imminent-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/ron-paul-asks-is-north-korea-an-imminent-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul asks: Is North Korea an \u2018Imminent\u00a0Threat\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-28554\"><!-- .entry-header --><!-- .entry-footer --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said recently that \u201ceverything is on the table\u201d to confront North Korea unless the country gives up its nuclear weapons program, meaning presumably a US pre-emptive attack. But surely Kim Jong-Un is aware of what happened to Libya\u2019s Gaddafi when he listened to US demands and abandoned his nuclear weapons program \u2014 he was invaded and murdered! So the US suffers from its own aggressive foreign policy, and its words are meaningless next to its actions. Is North Korea really an imminent threat to the United States? No, but if we continue to provoke rather than pull back and allow the two Koreas to solve their own problems what threat there is will increase:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AHSKQDFz3pU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/\">The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &amp; Prosperity<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content -->\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/AWCBlog\/~3\/jJuN7YApHBY\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said recently that \u201ceverything is on the table\u201d to confront North Korea unless the country gives up its nuclear weapons program, meaning presumably a US pre-emptive attack. But surely Kim Jong-Un is aware of what happened to Libya\u2019s Gaddafi when he listened to US demands and abandoned his nuclear weapons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-300204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300204","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\/2519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}