{"id":351988,"date":"2018-03-13T17:52:03","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T16:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/maximum-pressure-on-n-korea-until-real-progress\/"},"modified":"2018-03-13T17:52:03","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T16:52:03","slug":"maximum-pressure-on-n-korea-until-real-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/maximum-pressure-on-n-korea-until-real-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Maximum pressure on N. Korea until real progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The US national security adviser says that the UN Security Council supports President Donald Trump\u2019s<\/strong> <strong>intention to keep up maximum pressure on North Korea until there is \u201creal progress\u201d toward denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>H.R. McMaster told reporters at the UN headquarters on Monday that Trump approved the maximum pressure strategy against Pyongyang about a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has us now to a point where we may be able to pursue a diplomatic solution to the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula,\u201d McMaster said. \u201cSo we\u2019re determined to pursue that course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Trump agreed\u00a0to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un by May.<\/p>\n<p>US Ambassador Nikki Haley, standing beside McMaster, said successively tough UN sanctions resolutions adopted unanimously have cut off all North Korean exports and most of its trade.<\/p>\n<p>McMaster said he talked to the Security Council about keeping up the campaign of maximum&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/03\/13\/555333\/Maximum-pressure-on-North-Korea-until-real-progress-McMaster\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US national security adviser says that the UN Security Council supports President Donald Trump\u2019s intention to keep up maximum pressure on North Korea until there is \u201creal progress\u201d toward denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. H.R. McMaster told reporters at the UN headquarters on Monday that Trump approved the maximum pressure strategy against Pyongyang about [&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-351988","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\/351988","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=351988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}