{"id":24525,"date":"2017-09-04T13:52:17","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T17:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=24525"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:33:10","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:33:10","slug":"what-the-media-isnt-telling-you-about-north-koreas-missile-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/09\/04\/what-the-media-isnt-telling-you-about-north-koreas-missile-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Media isn\u2019t Telling You About North Korea\u2019s Missile Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Counterpunch<\/em> has the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2017\/09\/04\/what-the-media-isnt-telling-you-about-north-koreas-missile-tests\/\" target=\"_blank\">What the Media isn\u2019t Telling You About North Korea\u2019s Missile Tests<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\u201cPrior to President Trump\u2019s inauguration, North Korea made it clear it was prepared to give the new U.S. administration time to review the policy and come up with something better than President Obama\u2019s.  The only wrinkle was that if the U.S. went full-steam ahead with its annual joint exercises with South Korea (especially if that were accompanied by more talk of \u201cdecapitation\u201d and more flights of strategic bombers over the Korean peninsula), the North would react strongly.<\/p>\n<p>In short, the U.S. did, and the North reacted.<\/p>\n<p>Behind-the-scenes contacts went up and down, but couldn\u2019t get traction.  In April, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un paraded new missiles as a warning, to no effect.  The regime launched the new systems, one after another.  Still, Washington\u2019s approach didn\u2019t change.\u201d (Analysis: Pyongyang\u2019s view of the North Korea-U.S. crisis\u201d, CBS News)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I already knew the gist of this story, but it adds a lot of details that I had not been following.  Our esteemed Senator Ed Markey just keeps piling on fuel to this fire without a hint that this is going on in the background.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Counterpunch has the article What the Media isn\u2019t Telling You About North Korea\u2019s Missile Tests. \u201cPrior to President Trump\u2019s inauguration, North Korea made it clear it was prepared to give the new U.S. administration time to review the policy and come up with something better than President Obama\u2019s. The only wrinkle was that if the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24525","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24525"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24528,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24525\/revisions\/24528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}