{"id":71040,"date":"2017-03-23T17:47:56","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T21:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71040"},"modified":"2017-03-23T17:51:18","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T21:51:18","slug":"dprk-readying-next-nuke-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71040","title":{"rendered":"DPRK Readying Next Nuke Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NDtBF is at it again- can&#8217;t feed his people but he can afford to pop another A-Bomb, and soon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;\u201cThe test could come as early as the end of the month,\u201d said one official.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Both the Russians and the US have prepositioned surveillance aircraft\u00a0to the area to monitor the air post blast. Ours is an Air Force WC-135 Constant Phoenix\u00a0bird, and the Russians have deployed an Antonov An-30R reconnaissance aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Pentagon is increasingly concerned about North Korea\u2019s ability to miniaturize a nuclear warhead and eventually place it on a ballistic missile. Each missile brings North Korea closer to achieving that goal, according to defense analysts.<\/p>\n<p>In his New Year\u2019s address, Kim Jong-un said his nation has \u201centered the final stage of preparation for the test launch of intercontinental ballistic missiles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month North Korea launched four ballistic missiles, which landed 190 miles from Japan, an indication North Korea was simulating a more sophisticated attack to overwhelm anti-ballistic missile systems in Japan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No doubt this is partly in response to\u00a0SecState Tillerson&#8217;s comments concerning the Norks and their weapons programs:<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">&#8220;Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson, in a visit to South Korea, said if North Korea increased &#8220;the threat of their weapons program\u201d to an unacceptable level, the Trump administration would consider action. &#8220;The policy of strategic patience has ended,&#8221; Mr. Tillerson said.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">Sounds like the grownups are in charge, and Laughing Boy isn&#8217;t happy about it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2017\/03\/23\/north-korea-will-launch-another-nuclear-test-in-next-few-days-source-says.html\">More Here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NDtBF is at it again- can&#8217;t feed his people but he can afford to pop another &hellip; <a title=\"DPRK Readying Next Nuke Test\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71040\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DPRK Readying Next Nuke Test<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,241],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues","category-nukes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71040","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\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}