{"id":339735,"date":"2017-12-16T12:45:49","date_gmt":"2017-12-16T11:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/north-korea-nukes-could-soon-reach-uk\/"},"modified":"2017-12-16T12:45:49","modified_gmt":"2017-12-16T11:45:49","slug":"north-korea-nukes-could-soon-reach-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/north-korea-nukes-could-soon-reach-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea nukes could soon reach UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has warned the missiles being developed by North Korea could hit Britain within six months.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Johnson made the comments at a private meeting with Conservative Members of Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s top diplomat also said the United States could pull all of their military forces out of South Korea in a bid to convince China to topple North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson\u2019s warning echoes those of Richard Barrons, the UK&#8217;s former commander of Joint Forces Command, who said in November that North\u00a0Korea would be able to strike Britain with nuclear missiles within 12 to 18 months.<\/p>\n<p>Barrons underscored the growing range of threats to Britain, including from North Korea and Russia, which he said UK forces had no defense against.<\/p>\n<p>In September, former UK Defense Secretary Michael Fallon warned about the risk of North Korean nuclear weapons and said it would only be a matter of time before Britain could be&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/12\/16\/545806\/uk-Johnson-korea-nuclear\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has warned the missiles being developed by North Korea could hit Britain within six months. Johnson made the comments at a private meeting with Conservative Members of Parliament. Britain\u2019s top diplomat also said the United States could pull all of their military forces out of South Korea in a bid [&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-339735","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\/339735","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=339735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}