{"id":327851,"date":"2017-09-26T23:30:42","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T22:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/pyongyang-reaching-out-to-gop-analysts-to-figure-trump-out-report\/"},"modified":"2017-09-26T23:30:42","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T22:30:42","slug":"pyongyang-reaching-out-to-gop-analysts-to-figure-trump-out-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/pyongyang-reaching-out-to-gop-analysts-to-figure-trump-out-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Pyongyang reaching out to GOP analysts to figure Trump out: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>The North Korean government has been secretly attempting to reach out to analysts close to the United States\u2019 Republican Party in an effort to understand <\/strong><strong>President Donald Trump.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">The president and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un have recently stepped up threats against one another; however, Pyongyang\u2019s outreach program for Asia experts with GOP connections in Washington even precedes that, <em>The Washington Post<\/em> reported on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">\u201cTheir number one concern is Trump. They can\u2019t figure him out,\u201d a person with direct knowledge of the move was cited as saying.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">With tensions escalating between the two nuclear-armed states, such an approach would become more urgent as misunderstanding could serve as catastrophic.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<figure class=\"image\" style=\"display:inline-block\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"313\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20170926\/3414dc41-8706-4d17-affc-b40da19a5632.jpg\" width=\"555\"\/><figcaption>Spectators listen to a television news broadcast of a statement by North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un before a public television screen outside the central railway station in Pyongyang on September 22, 2017. \u00a0(Photos by AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">In a&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/09\/26\/536600\/N-Korea-taps-GOP-analysts-to-understand-Trump\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The North Korean government has been secretly attempting to reach out to analysts close to the United States\u2019 Republican Party in an effort to understand President Donald Trump. The president and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un have recently stepped up threats against one another; however, Pyongyang\u2019s outreach program for Asia experts with GOP connections in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":327852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-327851","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327851","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=327851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}