{"id":75968,"date":"2019-12-09T10:59:22","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T10:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=75968"},"modified":"2019-12-09T10:59:23","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T10:59:23","slug":"north-korea-conducts-very-important-test-at-satellite-launch-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/north-korea-conducts-very-important-test-at-satellite-launch-site\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea conducts \u2018very important\u2019 test at satellite launch site"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>North Korea has carried out a \u201cvery important\u201d test at its Sohae satellite launch site, state media KCNA reported on Sunday, a rocket testing ground that US officials once said North Korea had promised to close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reported test comes as a year-end deadline North Korea has imposed nears, warning it could take a \u201cnew path\u201d amid stalled denuclearisation talks with the United States.Missile experts said it appeared likely the North Koreans had conducted a static test of a rocket engine, rather than a missile launch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf it is indeed a static engine test for a new solid or liquid fuel missile, it is yet another loud signal that the door for diplomacy is quickly slamming, if it isn\u2019t already,\u201d said Vipin Narang, a nuclear affairs expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tensions have risen ahead of a year-end deadline set by North Korea, which has called on the United States to change its policy of insisting on Pyongyang\u2019s unilateral denuclearisation and demanded relief from punishing sanctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Saturday North Korea\u2019s ambassador to the United Nations said denuclearisation was now off the negotiating table with the United States and lengthy talks with Washington are not needed.<\/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>North Korea has carried out a \u201cvery important\u201d test at its Sohae satellite launch site, state media KCNA reported on Sunday, a rocket testing ground that US officials once said North Korea had promised to close. The reported test comes as a year-end deadline North Korea has imposed nears, warning it could take a \u201cnew [&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":75969,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75968","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\/75968","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=75968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75970,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75968\/revisions\/75970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}