{"id":281273,"date":"2017-01-03T05:59:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T05:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=281273"},"modified":"2017-01-03T05:59:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T05:59:00","slug":"trump-north-korea-intercontinental-missile-wont-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=281273","title":{"rendered":"Trump: North Korea intercontinental missile ‘won’t happen’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump has dismissed North Korea’s claim to be developing missiles capable of striking America.<\/p>\n

In a tweet, the US president-elect derided the claim by North Korea’s Kim Jong-un that preparations were in the final stage, saying: “It won’t happen.”<\/p>\n

It was not clear if Mr Trump was expressing doubts about North Korea’s nuclear capabilities or was planning preventative action.<\/p>\n

Mr Trump also berated China for failing to help rein in its ally North Korea.<\/p>\n

“China has been taking out massive amounts of money & wealth from the U.S. in totally one-sided trade, but won’t help with North Korea. Nice!” Mr Trump tweeted.<\/p>\n

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In his New Year message at the weekend, Mr Kim Jong-un said North Korea was close to testing long-range missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads.<\/p>\n

North Korea has conducted two nuclear tests in the past year, including its biggest one to date. This raised fears that it has made significant nuclear advances.<\/p>\n

But it has never successfully test-fired such a missile.<\/p>\n

UN resolutions call for an end to the country’s nuclear and missile tests.<\/p>\n

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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump has dismissed North Korea’s claim to be developing missiles capable of striking America. In a tweet, the US president-elect derided the claim by North Korea’s Kim Jong-un that preparations were in the final stage, saying: “It won’t happen.” It was not clear if Mr Trump was expressing doubts about North Korea’s nuclear capabilities […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=281273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=281273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=281273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=281273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}