{"id":378684,"date":"2018-09-26T16:26:10","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T15:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-north-korea-still-significant-nuclear-threat-to-us\/"},"modified":"2018-09-26T16:26:10","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T15:26:10","slug":"presstv-north-korea-still-significant-nuclear-threat-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-north-korea-still-significant-nuclear-threat-to-us\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-North Korea still &#8216;significant&#8217; nuclear threat to US"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>North Korea still poses a &#8220;significant&#8221; nuclear threat despite the Singapore summit between President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un, says Trump\u2019s nominee for the next American commander for US and allied forces in South Korea.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere still remains a significant conventional and strategic (nuclear) capability on behalf of [North Korea],&#8221; Army. Gen. Robert B. Abrams told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>When asked by Sen. Jack Reed, (D-R.I.), about the effect of cancelling joint military exercises, or &#8220;war games,&#8221; with South Korea following the June summit, Abrams said that there had been &#8220;slight degradation&#8221; to the US military presence on the Korean Peninsula, but said it was a &#8220;prudent risk&#8221; to see if North Korea would end its nuclear weapons program.<\/p>\n<p>On when the joint exercises with South Korea will restart, Abrams said no final decision has been made yet, but noted that Pentagon officials &#8220;are proceeding with planning&#8221; for&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/09\/26\/575254\/US-North-Korea-South-Korea\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea still poses a &#8220;significant&#8221; nuclear threat despite the Singapore summit between President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un, says Trump\u2019s nominee for the next American commander for US and allied forces in South Korea. \u201cThere still remains a significant conventional and strategic (nuclear) capability on behalf of [North Korea],&#8221; Army. Gen. Robert B. Abrams [&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-378684","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\/378684","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=378684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}