{"id":341182,"date":"2017-12-26T21:11:49","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T20:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-sanctions-two-n-koreans-over-missile-program\/"},"modified":"2017-12-26T21:11:49","modified_gmt":"2017-12-26T20:11:49","slug":"presstv-us-sanctions-two-n-koreans-over-missile-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-sanctions-two-n-koreans-over-missile-program\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US sanctions two N Koreans over missile program"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The United States has sanctioned two senior North Korean officials over the country&#8217;s ballistic missile program.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Department of the Treasury on Tuesday named the officials as Kim Jong Sik and Ri Pyong Chol, adding Kim was reportedly a key figure in North Korea&#8217;s efforts to switch its missile program from liquid to solid fuel, while Ri was reported to be a key official involved in the country&#8217;s intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) development.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Treasury is targeting leaders of North Korea&#8217;s ballistic missile programs, as part of our maximum pressure campaign to isolate (North Korea) and achieve a fully denuclearized Korean Peninsula,&#8221; Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese actions follow Friday\u2019s United Nations Security Council Resolution, which imposed strong new sanctions on North Korea further shutting down its ability to raise illicit funds,\u201d Mnuchin added.<\/p>\n<p>The UN Security Council imposed\u00a0new&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/12\/26\/546915\/US-sanctions-sanctions-two-Koreans-over-missile-program-statement\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has sanctioned two senior North Korean officials over the country&#8217;s ballistic missile program. The Department of the Treasury on Tuesday named the officials as Kim Jong Sik and Ri Pyong Chol, adding Kim was reportedly a key figure in North Korea&#8217;s efforts to switch its missile program from liquid to solid fuel, [&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-341182","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\/341182","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=341182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}