{"id":29847,"date":"2021-03-17T13:34:11","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T04:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/17\/us-warns-north-korea-could-be-planning-icbm-test-in-near-future-in-test-for-biden"},"modified":"2021-03-17T13:34:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T04:34:11","slug":"us-warns-north-korea-could-be-planning-icbm-test-in-near-future-in-test-for-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29847","title":{"rendered":"US warns North Korea could be planning ICBM test &#8216;in near future&#8217; in test for Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comments come as US secretary of state and defence secretary begin visit to Japan and South Korea to discuss security<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/north-korea\">North Korea<\/a> could be planning to flight test an upgraded inter-continental ballistic missile [ICBM] \u201cin the near future,\u201d a senior <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\">US<\/a> military official has warned, in what would be the regime\u2019s first serious policy challenge for Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>The warning, by Air Force Gen. Glen VanHerck, who as head of the Northern Command is in charge of defending the continental US, appeared to be based on North Korea\u2019s unveiling at a parade in October of what would be its largest ICBM yet, and not on specific intelligence about an imminent launch.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/17\/us-warns-north-korea-could-be-planning-icbm-test-in-near-future-in-test-for-biden\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments come as US secretary of state and defence secretary begin visit to Japan and South Korea to discuss securityNorth Korea could be planning to flight test an upgraded inter-continental ballistic missile [ICBM] \u201cin the near future,\u201d a senior US m&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":344,"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":[41,40,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-north-korea","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29847","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\/344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29848,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29847\/revisions\/29848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}