{"id":80526,"date":"2018-07-12T11:36:42","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T15:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=80526"},"modified":"2018-07-12T11:36:42","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T15:36:42","slug":"norks-are-no-shows-at-repatriation-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80526","title":{"rendered":"Norks are no-shows at repatriation talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/n-korea-skips-meeting-on-repatriating-the-remains-of-american-war-dead-1.537229\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a>, the North Korean delegation was a no-show at scheduled talks for repatriation of servicemembers&#8217; remains at Panmunjom today;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The no-show fuels growing skepticism over the North\u2019s commitment to the \u201ccomplete denuclearization\u201d of the Korean Peninsula as promised during the June 12 summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the talks would be held in the truce village of Panmunjom after his fraught visit to North Korea last week, although he added the caveat that \u201cit could move by one day or two.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Officials from the Defense POW\/MIA Accounting Agency traveled to the U.N.-controlled area in the heavily fortified border for the meeting but the North Koreans never showed up, according to official sources.<\/p>\n<p>South Korean media also reported that the North Koreans didn\u2019t show up, citing government officials.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is my shocked face. While I hoped against hope, I kind of figured that the North Koreans were just playing games. There&#8217;s still time for them to salvage the talks and peace on the peninsula, but my money is staying in the bank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Stars &#038; Stripes, the North Korean delegation was a no-show at scheduled talks for &hellip; <a title=\"Norks are no-shows at repatriation talks\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80526\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Norks are no-shows at repatriation talks<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80526","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}