{"id":23925,"date":"2018-03-06T11:36:56","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T11:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=23925"},"modified":"2018-03-06T11:36:56","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T11:36:56","slug":"white-house-clarifies-trumps-north-korea-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/white-house-clarifies-trumps-north-korea-call\/","title":{"rendered":"White House clarifies Trump\u2019s North Korea \u2018call\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The White House has said that Donald Trump had been referring to a call with South Korea\u2019s leader when he appeared to suggest a landmark direct contact with the nuclear North.<\/p>\n<p>Trump raised eyebrows at a Washington media dinner on Saturday when he said \u201cthey, by the way, called up a couple of days ago and said \u2018we would like to talk.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I said, \u2018so would we, but you have to de-nuke, you have to de-nuke,\u2019\u201c Trump added.<\/p>\n<p>A senior administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told AFP that Trump had in fact been referencing a call he had on Thursday with South Korean President Moon Jae-in.<\/p>\n<p>Pyongyang is the Korean peninsula\u2019s only nuclear-armed power, prompting speculation of rare direct contact between US and North Korean officials.<\/p>\n<p>Moon has prodded Trump toward negotiations, and has met North Korean officials himself.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has taken a more bellicose position, suggesting military action is possible if North Korea does not stop efforts to develop a nuclear armed missile capable of hitting the continental 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>The White House has said that Donald Trump had been referring to a call with South Korea\u2019s leader when he appeared to suggest a landmark direct contact with the nuclear North. Trump raised eyebrows at a Washington media dinner on Saturday when he said \u201cthey, by the way, called up a couple of days ago [&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":23926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23925","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\/23925","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=23925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23927,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23925\/revisions\/23927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}