{"id":42344,"date":"2022-03-11T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T21:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/10\/us-north-korea-icbm-missile-serious-escalation"},"modified":"2022-03-11T06:00:12","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T21:00:12","slug":"serious-escalation-us-believes-north-korea-testing-intercontinental-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42344","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Serious escalation\u2019: US believes North Korea testing intercontinental missile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pyongyang launches were to test parts of intercontinental ballistic missile and not satellite surveillance system, US concludes<\/p>\n<p>The US believes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/north-korea\">North Korea<\/a> is testing a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in what the Biden administration called a \u201cserious escalation\u201d that will trigger more sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>Pyongyang conducted two recent missile launches which it said were ultimately <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/28\/north-korea-says-latest-missile-test-part-of-building-satellite-surveillance-system\">intended for putting satellites into space<\/a>. After scrutinising them, however, US intelligence has assessed that the real intention was to test parts of the new ICBM.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/10\/us-north-korea-icbm-missile-serious-escalation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pyongyang launches were to test parts of intercontinental ballistic missile and not satellite surveillance system, US concludesThe US believes North Korea is testing a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in what the Biden administration calle&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"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":[41,40,441,45,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-north-korea","category-nuclear-weapons","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42344","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\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42344"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42348,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42344\/revisions\/42348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}