{"id":21278,"date":"2017-04-15T11:11:59","date_gmt":"2017-04-15T10:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=21278"},"modified":"2017-04-15T11:11:59","modified_gmt":"2017-04-15T10:11:59","slug":"north-korea-the-most-dangerous-tripwire-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=21278","title":{"rendered":"North Korea: the most dangerous tripwire in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These are scary times: random acts of terrorism, an American attack on a Syrian air base, the mother of all bombs in Afghanistan, and &#8211; above all &#8211; rising tensions in the Korean Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to know about whom one should be most fearful: the aggressive dictator in\u00a0Pyongyang who has nuclear weapons and an increasing capacity to deliver them or the flip-flopping newcomer in the White House with the largest military arsenal in history and a willingness to use it.<\/p>\n<p>I recently read a book entitled &#8220;North Korea: State Of Paranoia&#8221; which sets out some of the historic background to the current crisis. You can read my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/currentaffairs.html#NK\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are scary times: random acts of terrorism, an American attack on a Syrian air base, the mother of all bombs in Afghanistan, and &#8211; above all &#8211; rising tensions in the Korean Peninsula. It&#8217;s hard to know about whom one should be most fearful: the aggressive dictator in\u00a0Pyongyang who has nuclear weapons and an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21278"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21281,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21278\/revisions\/21281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}