{"id":6467,"date":"2013-03-11T04:43:46","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T04:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/nkorea-threatens-war-as-skorea-us-begin-drills\/"},"modified":"2013-03-11T04:53:22","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T04:53:22","slug":"nkorea-threatens-war-as-skorea-us-begin-drills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/nkorea-threatens-war-as-skorea-us-begin-drills\/","title":{"rendered":"NKorea Threatens War as SKorea, US Begin Drills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{North and South Korea staged dueling war games Monday as threatening rhetoric from the rivals rose to the highest level since North Korea rained artillery shells on a South Korean island in 2010.}}<\/p>\n<p>Enraged over the South&#8217;s joint military drills with the United States and recent U.N. sanctions, Pyongyang has piled threat on top of threat, including vows to launch a nuclear strike on the U.S. and to scrap the nearly 60-year-old armistice that ended the Korean War. <\/p>\n<p>Seoul has responded with tough talk of its own and has placed its troops on high alert.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea&#8217;s main newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, reported that the armistice was nullified Monday as Pyongyang had previously announced. <\/p>\n<p>The North followed through on another promise Monday, shutting down a Red Cross hotline that the North and South used for general communication and to discuss aid shipments and separated families&#8217; reunions.<\/p>\n<p>The 11-day military drills that started Monday involve 10,000 South Korean and about 3,000 American troops. Those coincide with two months of separate U.S.-South Korean field exercises that began March 1.<\/p>\n<p>Also continuing are large-scale North Korean drills that Seoul says involve the army, navy and air force. <\/p>\n<p>The South Korean defense ministry said there have been no military activities it considers suspicious.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the heightened tension, there were signs of business as usual Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The two Koreas continue to have at least two working channels of communication between their militaries and aviation authorities.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-2151 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/xc.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{North and South Korea staged dueling war games Monday as threatening rhetoric from the rivals rose to the highest level since North Korea rained artillery shells on a South Korean island in 2010.}} Enraged over the South&#8217;s joint military drills with the United States and recent U.N. sanctions, Pyongyang has piled threat on top of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[101],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-6467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-internationl","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6467"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=6467"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=6467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}