{"id":928,"date":"2003-02-07T16:32:28","date_gmt":"2003-02-08T08:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/02\/08\/just-in-case-things-werent-tense-enough\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:43:47","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:43:47","slug":"just-in-case-things-werent-tense-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/02\/07\/just-in-case-things-werent-tense-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Just in case things weren&#039;t tense enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15306,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.guardian.co.uk\\\/korea\\\/article\\\/0,2763,889679,00.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.theguardian.com\\\/korea\\\/article\\\/0,2763,889679,00.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\n  North Korea is entitled to launch a pre-emptive strike against the US rather than wait until the American military have finished with Iraq, the North&#8217;s foreign ministry <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/korea\/article\/0,2763,889679,00.html\" title=\"N Korea threatens US with first strike\">told the Guardian yesterday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;The United States says that after Iraq, we are next&#8221;, said the deputy director Ri Pyong-gap, &#8220;but we have our own countermeasures. Pre-emptive attacks are not the exclusive right of the US.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have <em>got<\/em> to find some more cheerful news to post soon, this is getting ridiculous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea is entitled to launch a pre-emptive strike against the US rather than wait until the American military have finished with Iraq, the North&#8217;s foreign ministry told the Guardian yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}