{"id":5166,"date":"2017-09-04T03:50:13","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T01:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/09\/04\/north-korea-threat-to-us-will-be-met-with-massive-military-response-says-mattis-live\/"},"modified":"2017-09-04T03:50:13","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T01:50:13","slug":"north-korea-threat-to-us-will-be-met-with-massive-military-response-says-mattis-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=5166","title":{"rendered":"North Korea threat to US will be met with &#039;massive military response&#039;, says Mattis \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seoul is poised to give green light to install four more batteries of controversial Thaad system amid tensions with PyongyangFull report: Nuclear test confirmed in major escalation by Kim Jong-unAnalysis: Latest nuclear test reflects failure of Trump\u2019s rhetoricTrump calls North Korea \u2018a rogue nation which has become a great threat\u2019Did North Korea just test a hydrogen bomb? 2.50am BST Here is a video of the full statement made by US defence secretary James Mattis earlier outside the White House. In it he says America\u2019s commitment to its allies is \u201cironclad\u201d and that any threat \u201cwill be met with a massive military response, both effective and overwhelming\u201d. 2.40am BST South Korea\u2019s military has released images of its live-fire exercises, held at undisclosed locations on Monday in response to the North\u2019s nuclear test. It involved Hyunmoo ballistic missiles and F-15K fighter jets as well as troop movements on the ground. The exercises, along with the conditional approval for a US missile defence system, appear to be further evidence of President Moon Jae-in\u2019s departure from the route of diplomacy. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2017\/sep\/03\/north-korea-nuclear-test-south-korea-yohap-kim-jong-un-live\" target=\"_blank\">North Korea threat to US will be met with &#039;massive military response&#039;, says Mattis \u2013 live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seoul is poised to give green light to install four more batteries of controversial Thaad system amid tensions with PyongyangFull report: Nuclear test confirmed in major escalation by Kim Jong-unAnalysis: Latest nuclear test reflects failure of Trump\u2019s rhetoricTrump calls North Korea \u2018a rogue nation which has become a great threat\u2019Did [&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-5166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5166","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=5166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}