{"id":40850,"date":"2022-01-20T14:20:03","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T05:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/20\/no-fire-and-fury-yet-but-a-game-of-nuclear-brinkmanship-with-north-korea-looms"},"modified":"2022-01-20T14:20:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T05:20:03","slug":"no-fire-and-fury-yet-but-a-game-of-nuclear-brinkmanship-with-north-korea-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40850","title":{"rendered":"No \u2018fire and fury\u2019 yet, but a game of nuclear brinkmanship with North Korea looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: Kim Jong-un\u2019s pressure on Joe Biden has so far elicited only fresh sanctions. Pyongyang has now signalled it may resume nuclear and ICBM tests<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/north-korea\">North Korea<\/a> has already conducted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/17\/north-korea-test-fires-fourth-missile-in-a-month-reports\">four test launches<\/a> of ballistic missiles this year, but they could be a mere precursor to more serious provocations, as Kim Jong-un\u2019s regime attempts to break the nuclear stalemate with the US.<\/p>\n<p>Superficially, the recent tests were a reminder of the North\u2019s ability to manufacture more sophisticated weapons \u2013 perhaps including those capable of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/12\/north-korea-says-it-tested-hypersonic-missile-with-superior-manoeuvrability\">evading missile defences<\/a> \u2013 despite years of international sanctions.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/20\/no-fire-and-fury-yet-but-a-game-of-nuclear-brinkmanship-with-north-korea-looms\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: Kim Jong-un\u2019s pressure on Joe Biden has so far elicited only fresh sanctions. Pyongyang has now signalled it may resume nuclear and ICBM testsNorth Korea has already conducted four test launches of ballistic missiles this year, but they could&#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":[41,1918,40,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-kim-jong-il","category-north-korea","category-nuclear-weapons"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40850","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=40850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40851,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40850\/revisions\/40851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}