{"id":37628,"date":"2013-04-03T02:30:10","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T02:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/pyongyang_to_restart_nuclear_plant\/"},"modified":"2013-04-03T02:30:10","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T02:30:10","slug":"pyongyang_to_restart_nuclear_plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37628","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) Pyongyang to Restart Nuclear Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea said on Tuesday it would restart its only nuclear reactor to provide plutonium for its weapons program, an announcement that added to already-heightened tensions on the Korean peninsula and drew swift international criticism.<\/p>\n<p>U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he was &#8220;deeply troubled&#8221; by the rising tensions. &#8220;Nuclear threats are not a game,&#8221; he said at a news conference in Andorra. &#8220;The current crisis has already gone too far.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Later Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called the North&#8217;s recent belligerent rhetoric &#8220;unacceptable&#8221; and said the U.S. will defend itself as well as South Korea and Japan from any threat from the North, the Associated Press reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887323296504578397690864995994.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea said on Tuesday it would restart its only nuclear reactor to provide plutonium for its weapons program, an announcement that added to already-heightened tensions on the Korean peninsula and drew swift international criticism. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37628\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,209,201,143,144,483,151,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-asia","category-defense-national-security-military","category-foreign-relations","category-north-korea","category-politics-in-general","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}