{"id":357817,"date":"2018-04-21T16:32:06","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T15:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-uk-welcomes-n-koreas-decision-to-suspend-nuclear-tests\/"},"modified":"2018-04-21T16:32:06","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T15:32:06","slug":"presstv-uk-welcomes-n-koreas-decision-to-suspend-nuclear-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-uk-welcomes-n-koreas-decision-to-suspend-nuclear-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-UK welcomes N Korea\u2019s decision to suspend nuclear tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The United Kingdom has welcomed North Korea\u2019s decision to suspend nuclear and missile tests and abolish an atomic test site, calling it a positive step.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>North Korean leader Kim Jong-un declared on Friday that his country no longer needed to conduct nuclear tests or intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) tests because it has completed its goal of developing nuclear weapons, the country&#8217;s official Central News Agency (KCNA) reported.<\/p>\n<p>Kim was cited as saying that the suspension will start\u00a0Saturday and that he will also shut down the site where the country conducted its previous six nuclear tests.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#8220;A long term commitment from Kim Jung-un to halt all nuclear tests and ICBM launches would be a positive step,\u201d the British government said in a statement on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope this indicates an effort to negotiate in good faith,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>London has also vowed to \u201cremain committed to working with our international partners to bring&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/04\/21\/559223\/UKNorth-Koreanuclear-progam\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Kingdom has welcomed North Korea\u2019s decision to suspend nuclear and missile tests and abolish an atomic test site, calling it a positive step. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un declared on Friday that his country no longer needed to conduct nuclear tests or intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) tests because it has completed its goal [&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-357817","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\/357817","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=357817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}