{"id":347872,"date":"2018-02-12T05:16:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T04:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-n-korea-cannot-drive-wedge-between-us-s-korea\/"},"modified":"2018-02-12T05:16:38","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T04:16:38","slug":"presstv-n-korea-cannot-drive-wedge-between-us-s-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-n-korea-cannot-drive-wedge-between-us-s-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-&#8216;N Korea cannot drive wedge between US, S Korea&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US Secretary of Defense James Mattis says says a temporary warming of relations between North Korea and South Korea could not drive a \u00a0\u201cwedge&#8221; between the United States and South Korea.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know that people are watching for a wedge between South Korea, Republic of Korea, in other words and the United States,&#8221; Mattis told reporters on a flight to Rome.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s no wedge there, the military staffs are integrated. If you move up to the political level, Admiral Song, minister of defense Song, flew into Hawaii when I was out in the Pacific, that&#8217;s so he and I could sit down face to face and consult.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mattis made the comments shortly after a high-level North Korean delegation headed home following a historic visit to the South on the sidelines of the Winter Olympics in South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>The delegation included senior officials from Pyongyang, including Kim Yo-jong, the sister of North Korea\u2019s leader. The South Korean president met with the North&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/02\/12\/552076\/north-korea-south-korea-kim-jongun-seoul-winter-olympics\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Secretary of Defense James Mattis says says a temporary warming of relations between North Korea and South Korea could not drive a \u00a0\u201cwedge&#8221; between the United States and South Korea. &#8220;I know that people are watching for a wedge between South Korea, Republic of Korea, in other words and the United States,&#8221; Mattis told [&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-347872","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\/347872","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=347872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}