{"id":347252,"date":"2018-02-08T00:24:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T23:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/war-not-likely-with-north-korea\/"},"modified":"2018-02-08T00:24:34","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T23:24:34","slug":"war-not-likely-with-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/war-not-likely-with-north-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"War not likely with North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US Defense Secretary James\u00a0Mattis\u00a0has denied that the probability of war with North Korea has increased since Donald Trump took office.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;As far as the situation with Korea, it is firmly in the diplomatic lane,&#8221;\u00a0said Mattis while addressing reporters at the White House on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We have seen much stronger diplomatic action,&#8221;\u00a0he said, citing a recent series of unanimously adopted UN Security Council resolutions aimed at pressuring Pyongyang.<\/p>\n<p>Mattis&#8217; remarks came after US Vice President Mike Pence announced that Washington will soon unveil its &#8220;toughest sanctions ever&#8221; on North Korea.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s administration claims that it prefers a diplomatic solution to the crisis, but it also says all options are on the table, including military action.<\/p>\n<p>Washington insists that any future talks should be aimed at North Korea giving up its nuclear weapons, something Pyongyang rejects.<\/p>\n<p>The UN Security Council unanimously imposed new sanctions on&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/02\/07\/551628\/north-korea-us-mattis-trump-war\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Defense Secretary James\u00a0Mattis\u00a0has denied that the probability of war with North Korea has increased since Donald Trump took office. &#8220;As far as the situation with Korea, it is firmly in the diplomatic lane,&#8221;\u00a0said Mattis while addressing reporters at the White House on Wednesday. &#8220;We have seen much stronger diplomatic action,&#8221;\u00a0he said, citing a recent [&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-347252","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\/347252","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=347252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}