{"id":43326,"date":"2022-04-07T12:24:17","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T03:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/07\/north-korea-could-hold-nuclear-test-next-week-us-envoy-warns"},"modified":"2022-04-07T12:24:17","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T03:24:17","slug":"north-korea-could-hold-nuclear-test-next-week-us-envoy-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43326","title":{"rendered":"North Korea could hold nuclear test next week, US envoy warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US says Pyongyang may escalate recent provocations with a weapons test on 110th anniversary of founder Kim Il-sung\u2019s birth<\/p>\n<p>North Korea could be planning its first nuclear weapon test in nearly five years, according to a senior US official who urged the regime to step back from further provocations following<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/24\/north-korea-test-launches-its-largest-intercontinental-ballistic-missile-yet\"> its recent long-range missile test<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sung Kim, the special representative for North Korea policy at the US state department, said Washington believes Pyongyang could demonstrate its growing nuclear weapons capacity on 15 April, an annual holiday held to celebrate the 110th anniversary of the birth of the country\u2019s founder, Kim Il-sung.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/07\/north-korea-could-hold-nuclear-test-next-week-us-envoy-warns\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US says Pyongyang may escalate recent provocations with a weapons test on 110th anniversary of founder Kim Il-sung\u2019s birthNorth Korea could be planning its first nuclear weapon test in nearly five years, according to a senior US official who urged the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[41,421,40,441,222,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea","category-nuclear-weapons","category-south-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\/43326","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43327,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43326\/revisions\/43327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}