{"id":29898,"date":"2021-03-18T19:03:49","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T10:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/18\/china-north-korea-us-nuclear-weapons-antony-blinken"},"modified":"2021-03-18T19:03:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T10:03:49","slug":"china-must-persuade-north-korea-to-give-up-nuclear-weapons-says-blinken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29898","title":{"rendered":"China must persuade North Korea to give up nuclear weapons, says Blinken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of state says China has a \u2018critical role\u2019, as North Korea says it will refuse dialogue with \u2018hostile\u2019 US<\/p>\n<p>China must use its \u201ctremendous influence\u201d to persuade <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/north-korea\">North Korea<\/a> to abandon its nuclear weapons, the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, has said, hours after the regime said it would ignore requests by a \u201chostile\u201d US to resume negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>Blinken said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/china\">China<\/a> had a \u201ccritical role\u201d to play in influencing North Korea given its status as the impoverished state\u2019s main trading partner and diplomatic ally.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/18\/china-north-korea-us-nuclear-weapons-antony-blinken\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of state says China has a \u2018critical role\u2019, as North Korea says it will refuse dialogue with \u2018hostile\u2019 USChina must use its \u201ctremendous influence\u201d to persuade North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons, the US secretary of state, Antony Blinke&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"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":[2003,50,40,441,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antony-blinken","category-china","category-north-korea","category-nuclear-weapons","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29898","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\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29899,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29898\/revisions\/29899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}