{"id":34118,"date":"2013-02-12T11:45:44","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T15:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34118"},"modified":"2013-02-12T11:46:10","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T15:46:10","slug":"north-korea-makes-a-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34118","title":{"rendered":"North Korea Makes Bang-Bang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case anyone missed it:\u00a0 North Korea <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/02\/12\/north-korea-nuclear-test-additional-measures_n_2667942.html\">conducted a nuclear test overnight<\/a>.\u00a0 It\u2019s estimated to have had an explosive yield of 6 to 7 kilotons \u2013 or between 1\/3 and 1\/2 the yield of those used during World War II.<\/p>\n<p>Even China was not amused, and reportedly summoned the North Korean ambassador to their foreign ministry for immediate consultations.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the UN will actually grow a pair and impose meaningful sanctions this time.\u00a0 As the kid in <em>\u201cAngels in the Outfield\u201d<\/em> said:\u00a0 \u201cHey, it could happen!\u201d &#8211; but I\u2019m not holding my breath.<\/p>\n<p>No word yet on when the hermit state plans to begin growing sufficient food to feed itself, or to provide a reasonable standard of living for their proletariat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case anyone missed it:\u00a0 North Korea conducted a nuclear test overnight.\u00a0 It\u2019s estimated to have &hellip; <a title=\"North Korea Makes Bang-Bang\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34118\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">North Korea Makes Bang-Bang<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}