{"id":14702,"date":"2019-08-16T11:18:44","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T10:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=14702"},"modified":"2019-08-16T11:18:44","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T10:18:44","slug":"korean-peace-talks-fall-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/korean-peace-talks-fall-through\/","title":{"rendered":"Korean Peace Talks Fall Through"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>North Korea has rejected any further talks with South Korea, justifying this decision by saying its &#8220;completely the fault of South Korea&#8217;s actions&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It issued a statement in response to a speech by South Korea President Moon Jae-in on Thursday. Meanwhile, early on Friday North Korea test-fired missiles for the sixth time in less than a month. They landed in the sea off its eastern coast, the South Korean military said.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea&#8217;s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the two &#8220;unidentified projectiles&#8221; were fired about 08:00 (23:00 GMT Thursday) and travelled 230km\u00a0 reaching an altitude of 30km.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 634px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/13C89\/production\/_108333018_055853406-1.jpg\" alt=\"South Korea President Moon Jae-in vowed to unite the Korean peninsula by 2045\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Moon.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In a speech marking Korea&#8217;s liberation from Japanese rule, President Moon vowed to unite the Korean peninsula by 2045. Korea divided into two countries at the end of World War Two.<\/p>\n<p>President Moon said the goal of achieving denuclearisation in Korea was at its &#8220;most critical juncture&#8221;, as talks between North and South appear to be unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the North said\u00a0 &#8220;even at this moment, South Korea continues its joint military exercise and to speak of a peaceful economy or a peaceful regime. It has no right to do so.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The statement continued: &#8220;We even question if his thought process is sound when he mentions &#8216;talks&#8217; between North and South while playing out war scenarios that plan to destroy most of our armies in 90 days.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He truly is a shameless man.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea has rejected any further talks with South Korea, justifying this decision by saying its &#8220;completely the fault of South Korea&#8217;s actions&#8221;. It issued a statement in response to a speech by South Korea President Moon Jae-in on Thursday. Meanwhile, early on Friday North Korea test-fired missiles for the sixth time in less than&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":14703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[967,71,965,1425,1569,1568,1295],"class_list":["post-14702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asian-news","category-worldwide-news","tag-korea","tag-news","tag-north-korea","tag-nuclear","tag-nuclear-talks","tag-south-korea","tag-worldwide-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14704,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14702\/revisions\/14704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}