{"id":372057,"date":"2018-08-04T07:43:01","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T06:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-north-korea-continues-weapons-programs-un-report\/"},"modified":"2018-08-04T07:43:01","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T06:43:01","slug":"presstv-north-korea-continues-weapons-programs-un-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-north-korea-continues-weapons-programs-un-report\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-North Korea continues weapons programs: UN report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A UN report says North Korea continues its weapons programs despite its leader&#8217;s promise to denuclearize.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The six-month\u00a0confidential report from independent experts monitoring Pyongyang\u2019s nuclear and missile activities, cited\u00a0by Reuters, said the North is still developing its weapons programs.<\/p>\n<p>Pyongyang has \u201ccontinued to defy Security Council resolutions through a massive increase in illicit ship-to-ship transfers of petroleum products, as well as through transfers of coal at sea during 2018,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2018\/07\/31\/569748\/North-Korea-missile-site-activity-satellite-imagery-Washington-Post\">reports <\/a>are suggesting Pyongyang is pressing ahead with its nuclear and missile activities since US President Donald Trump met with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in June.<\/p>\n<p>The report came as US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called for more diplomatic and economic pressures on North Korea over its nuclear weapons program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe work has begun. The process of achieving denuclearization of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/08\/04\/570124\/North-KoreaUNnuclear-missileMike-Pompeo\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A UN report says North Korea continues its weapons programs despite its leader&#8217;s promise to denuclearize. The six-month\u00a0confidential report from independent experts monitoring Pyongyang\u2019s nuclear and missile activities, cited\u00a0by Reuters, said the North is still developing its weapons programs. Pyongyang has \u201ccontinued to defy Security Council resolutions through a massive increase in illicit ship-to-ship transfers [&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-372057","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\/372057","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=372057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}