{"id":37212,"date":"2021-09-22T20:57:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T11:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/22\/pushing-the-nuclear-envelope-north-koreas-missile-diplomacy"},"modified":"2021-09-22T20:57:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T11:57:03","slug":"pushing-the-nuclear-envelope-north-koreas-missile-diplomacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37212","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Pushing the nuclear envelope\u2019: North Korea\u2019s missile diplomacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: Fear and uncertainty of the Obama years could return as Kim Jong-un revives nuclear ambitions<\/p>\n<p>North Korea\u2019s recent missile launches signal that the regime has reverted to familiar tactics to attract the attention of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\">US<\/a>. Although the rest of the world will take little comfort from this return to \u201cnormality\u201d, after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/25\/north-korea-missile-test-japan-south-korea\">six-month pause<\/a> Pyongyang last weekend launched what it claimed were new long-range cruise missiles capable of hitting Japan, followed hours later by the test launch of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/17\/north-korea-fired-ballistic-missiles-from-train-amid-rising-tensions-with-the-south\">two ballistic missiles<\/a> into the sea, apparently from a train.<\/p>\n<p>Then came the clearest sign since its last nuclear test in 2017 that the North is not about to abandon its project to build a viable deterrent, with satellite images showing it was expanding a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/19\/north-korea-expanding-weapons-grade-uranium-plant-satellite-images-suggest\">uranium enrichment plant<\/a> at its main Yongbyon nuclear complex.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/22\/pushing-the-nuclear-envelope-north-koreas-missile-diplomacy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: Fear and uncertainty of the Obama years could return as Kim Jong-un revives nuclear ambitionsNorth Korea\u2019s recent missile launches signal that the regime has reverted to familiar tactics to attract the attention of the US. Although the rest o&#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":[41,1854,939,421,40,441,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-biden-administration","category-joe-biden","category-kim-jong-un","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\/37212","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=37212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37213,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37212\/revisions\/37213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}