{"id":334507,"date":"2017-11-11T08:27:42","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T07:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-warships-lead-war-games-aimed-at-north-korea\/"},"modified":"2017-11-11T08:27:42","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T07:27:42","slug":"presstv-us-warships-lead-war-games-aimed-at-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-warships-lead-war-games-aimed-at-north-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US warships lead war games aimed at North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>American and South Korean warships have launched war games off the coast of the Korean Peninsula in an unusually strong display of force aimed at North Korea.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The November 11-14 joint drills, which began on Saturday in the western Pacific, involve three US aircraft carriers &#8212; USS Ronald Reagan, USS Nimitz and USS Theodore Roosevelt &#8212; and seven South Korean warships including three destroyers, according to the South Korean defense ministry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The exercise is aimed at enhancing deterrence against North Korea&#8217;s nuclear and missile threats and showing off preparedness to fend off any provocative acts by the North,&#8221; a ministry spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>The joint drills &#8212; the first in the region for a decade \u2013 are taking place in the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The last time such military maneuvers were held was during the Valiant Shield exercises in 2006 and 2007. \u00a0They were staged off the coast of Guam \u2013 a US territory which hosts two&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/11\/11\/541781\/US-South-Korean-navies-launch-war-games-aimed-at-North-Korea\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American and South Korean warships have launched war games off the coast of the Korean Peninsula in an unusually strong display of force aimed at North Korea. The November 11-14 joint drills, which began on Saturday in the western Pacific, involve three US aircraft carriers &#8212; USS Ronald Reagan, USS Nimitz and USS Theodore Roosevelt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-334507","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\/334507","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=334507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}