{"id":2502,"date":"2017-08-15T04:03:56","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T02:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/08\/15\/north-korea-holds-off-guam-missile-launches-as-kim-jong-un-calms-tensions\/"},"modified":"2017-08-15T04:03:56","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T02:03:56","slug":"north-korea-holds-off-guam-missile-launches-as-kim-jong-un-calms-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=2502","title":{"rendered":"North Korea holds off Guam missile launches as Kim Jong-un calms tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rare conciliatory message follows warning from James Mattis that sending missiles towards a US territory \u2018could escalate into war very quickly\u2019Kim Jong-un appeared on Tuesday to signal a pause in the escalating war of words with Donald Trump, saying he was prepared to watch US actions in the region \u201ca little more\u201d before ordering a planned launch of North Korean missiles aimed at the US territory of Guam. The North Korean leader was quoted by the state press agency KCNA after conducting a tour of the country\u2019s missile command. But he warned he could still order a missile launch aimed at the seas around Guam if the US carried out further provocations. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/aug\/14\/north-korean-missiles-probably-engines-sourced-from-russia-or-ukraine-icbm\" target=\"_blank\">North Korea holds off Guam missile launches as Kim Jong-un calms tensions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rare conciliatory message follows warning from James Mattis that sending missiles towards a US territory \u2018could escalate into war very quickly\u2019Kim Jong-un appeared on Tuesday to signal a pause in the escalating war of words with Donald Trump, saying he was prepared to watch US actions in the region \u201ca [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}