{"id":24088,"date":"2017-08-15T15:10:22","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T09:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=24088"},"modified":"2017-08-15T15:10:29","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T09:40:29","slug":"kim-north-korea-not-hit-guam-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/world-news\/kim-north-korea-not-hit-guam-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim: North Korea not to hit Guam for now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<strong><em>Nobody should be allowed to decide on military action, says South Korea<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Responding to the global calls for calm, North Korea\u2019s leader Kim Jong-un has decided to halt a plan to launch four missiles towards Guam, a US territory in the Western Pacific ocean and warned that his country will \u201cstay fire-ready\u201d while keeping close watch on Washington\u2019s actions.<\/p>\n<p>According to KCNA the official news agency, the leader informed his military commanders, on Tuesday, that he would wait and monitor the US actions for the time being.\u00a0 Kim conveyed his decision after inspecting the Strategic Force command in-charge of the nuclear armed missile units where he was given detailed briefing about the \u201cplan for an enveloping fire at Guam.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kim said that he would \u201cwatch a little more the foolish and stupid conduct of the Yankees\u201d before executing any order. If they \u201cpersist in their extremely dangerous reckless actions on the Korean Peninsula, North Korea would then take action \u201cas already declared,\u201d he asserted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/topic\/north-korea\">North Korea<\/a> had announced plan to launch missile to hit 30-40 kilometers close to Guam last week. The commanders were asked to prepare the plan by mid-August. It was reportedly a reaction to US president Donald Trump\u2019s threat to unleash \u201cfire and fury\u201d on North Korea. He had also said that US military is \u201clocked and loaded\u201d to deal with the North.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile South Korean President Moon Jae-in\u00a0 has warned that no\u00a0 country should start a military action on the Korean Peninsula without his nation\u2019s approval. This is considered to be unusual blunt rebuke to Donald Trump\u2019s repeated warnings to North Korea.<\/p>\n<p>In a televised address on the occasion of National Liberation Day, commemorating the end of Japanese colonial rule of Korea at the end of World War II, Moon said,\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s only South Korea that can decide on a military action on the Korean Peninsula.\u201d He further emphasized, \u201cNo one should be allowed to decide on a military action on the Korean Peninsula without South Korean agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/topic\/south-korea\">South Koreans<\/a> have grown concern about the possible military conflict in the wake of rhetoric between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un about \u201cfire and fury\u201d and threat to hit Guam, a US territory in Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/topic\/donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> is also facing opposition in UK, one of its closest allies and partner in wars in several conflicts. Labour Leader Jeremy Cobryn, has, in an article published by Sunday Mirror, warned Theresa May government against taking part in any military action against North Korea.<\/p>\n<p>The Labour leader further said, \u201cIn the interests of sanity and safety for the whole world, global \u00adpressure for dialogue and diplomacy must be overwhelming. Our government must not drag our country into any military action over the Korea crisis, including joint exercises,&#8221; he suggested.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Nobody should be allowed to decide on military action, says South Korea Responding to the global calls for calm, North Korea\u2019s leader Kim Jong-un has decided to halt a plan to launch four missiles towards Guam, a US territory in the Western Pacific ocean and warned that his country will \u201cstay fire-ready\u201d while keeping close [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1511],"tags":[1764,2884,3434,501],"yst_prominent_words":[16155,16153,16159,16161,16158,16154,16164,15485,16157,16162,4551,15168,5047,15961,16152,4542,16163,16160,16156,4545],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2017\/08\/kim-jong-un.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24088"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24088"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=24088"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=24088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->