{"id":12554,"date":"2019-12-30T10:11:54","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T01:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/30\/north-koreas-kim-jong-un-calls-for-offensive-measures-as-nuclear-deadline-looms"},"modified":"2019-12-30T10:11:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T01:11:54","slug":"north-koreas-kim-jong-un-calls-for-offensive-measures-as-nuclear-deadline-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12554","title":{"rendered":"North Korea&#8217;s Kim Jong-un calls for &#8216;offensive&#8217; measures as nuclear deadline looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dictator\u2019s comments come ahead of a year-end deadline for US to soften stance on missile programme<\/p>\n<p>North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has called for \u201cpositive and offensive measures\u201d to ensure security at a ruling party meeting ahead of a year-end deadline he has set for denuclearisation talks with the United States, state media said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Kim convened a weekend meeting of party officials to pore over important policy matters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/27\/japans-public-broadcaster-mistakenly-reports-north-korea-missile-launch\">amid rising tension<\/a> over his deadline for Washington to soften its stance in stalled negotiations aimed at dismantling Pyongyang\u2019s nuclear and missile programmes.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/30\/north-koreas-kim-jong-un-calls-for-offensive-measures-as-nuclear-deadline-looms\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dictator\u2019s comments come ahead of a year-end deadline for US to soften stance on missile programmeNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-un has called for \u201cpositive and offensive measures\u201d to ensure security at a ruling party meeting ahead of a year-end deadline&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,40,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-north-korea","category-us-foreign-policy"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12555,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12554\/revisions\/12555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}