{"id":22727,"date":"2018-02-22T11:55:43","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T11:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=22727"},"modified":"2018-02-22T11:55:43","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T11:55:43","slug":"n-korea-cancelled-planned-meeting-with-us-vice-prez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/n-korea-cancelled-planned-meeting-with-us-vice-prez\/","title":{"rendered":"N Korea cancelled planned meeting with US Vice-Prez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington,<br \/>\nUS Vice-President Mike Pence was scheduled to meet with North Korean officials, including leader Kim Jong Un\u2019s sister, while in South Korea for the Winter Olympics this month but the North Koreans canceled at the last minute, US officials said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNorth Korea dangled a meeting in hopes of the Vice-President softening his message, which would have ceded the world stage for their propaganda during the Olympics,\u201d Pence\u2019s chief of staff, Nick Ayers, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>But after Pence condemned North Korean human rights abuses and announced plans for new economic sanctions, \u201cthey walked away from a meeting or perhaps they were never sincere about sitting down,\u201d Ayers said.<\/p>\n<p>Pence was going to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un\u2019s younger sister, Kim Yo Jong, and the nominal head of state, Kim Yong Nam, but the North Koreans called off the February 10 meeting two hours before it was set to start, a US official said, confirming a story first reported by the Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p>The encounter would have been the first scheduled between senior officials from the Trump administration and Pyongyang, which are in a standoff over the North&#8217;s development of nuclear weapons capable of hitting the United States.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, US Vice-President Mike Pence was scheduled to meet with North Korean officials, including leader Kim Jong Un\u2019s sister, while in South Korea for the Winter Olympics this month but the North Koreans canceled at the last minute, US officials said on Tuesday. \u201cNorth Korea dangled a meeting in hopes of the Vice-President softening his [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22729,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22727\/revisions\/22729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}