{"id":345599,"date":"2018-01-27T04:07:35","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T03:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-korea-talks-cant-distract-from-denuclearization-us\/"},"modified":"2018-01-27T04:07:35","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T03:07:35","slug":"presstv-korea-talks-cant-distract-from-denuclearization-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-korea-talks-cant-distract-from-denuclearization-us\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Korea talks can&#8217;t distract from denuclearization: US"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says that Olympics talks between North and South Korea should not lead to distraction from the goal of denuclearizing Pyongyang.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mattis made the remarks Friday during a photo session with South Korean Defense Minister Song Young-moo at US Pacific Command headquarters in Hawaii a day after Seoul&#8217;s top diplomat said a military solution would not be acceptable.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Diplomacy should impose reason on Kim&#8217;s reckless rhetoric and dangerous provocations,&#8221; Mattis said. &#8220;The international pressure campaign must continue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Song said the talks with the North are &#8220;about ultimately drawing the North into a dialogue with the United States.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We both understand each other well and that as an alliance, we always go together,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha said Thursday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland that the notion of using military force to make North Korea stop its nuclear program&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/01\/27\/550295\/US-North-Korea-South-Korea-jim-mattis\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says that Olympics talks between North and South Korea should not lead to distraction from the goal of denuclearizing Pyongyang. Mattis made the remarks Friday during a photo session with South Korean Defense Minister Song Young-moo at US Pacific Command headquarters in Hawaii a day after Seoul&#8217;s top diplomat said [&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-345599","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\/345599","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=345599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}