{"id":343125,"date":"2018-01-10T07:44:16","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T06:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-korea-talks-easing-tensions-on-peninsula-un\/"},"modified":"2018-01-10T07:44:16","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T06:44:16","slug":"presstv-korea-talks-easing-tensions-on-peninsula-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-korea-talks-easing-tensions-on-peninsula-un\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Korea talks easing tensions on peninsula: UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has hailed the progress made in the talks between North and South Koreas for easing tensions on the peninsula, an attitude that has &#8220;sidelined&#8221; US President Donald Trump, according to a New York-based political commentator.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Guterres welcomed &#8220;the agreement to work to ease military tensions, hold military-to-military talks, and reopen the inter-Korean military hotline,&#8221; said his spokesman, St\u00e9phane Dujarric, in a statement released on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The UN chief\u00a0further lauded Pyongyang&#8217;s decision to send a delegation to the upcoming Pyeongchang Winter Olympics to be held in South Korea next month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The re-establishment and strengthening of such channels is critical to lowering the risk of miscalculation or misunderstanding and to reduce tensions in the region,&#8221; added the statement.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made after delegates from North and South held their first official talks in two years at Panmunjom in the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/01\/10\/548410\/un-north-korea-south-talks-us\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has hailed the progress made in the talks between North and South Koreas for easing tensions on the peninsula, an attitude that has &#8220;sidelined&#8221; US President Donald Trump, according to a New York-based political commentator. Guterres welcomed &#8220;the agreement to work to ease military tensions, hold military-to-military talks, and reopen [&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-343125","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\/343125","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=343125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}