{"id":29977,"date":"2017-11-08T20:57:09","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T04:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=29977"},"modified":"2017-11-08T20:57:09","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T04:57:09","slug":"the-greatest-threat-to-both-koreas-donald-trumps-mouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/08\/the-greatest-threat-to-both-koreas-donald-trumps-mouth\/","title":{"rendered":"The Greatest Threat to Both Koreas? Donald Trump\u2019s Mouth."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KX7ScPKeTtI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In policy terms, the Trump administration has approached North Korea largely the same way the Obama administration has &#8211; with a heavy reliance on sanctions, appeals to China, and occasional threats.<\/p>\n<p>As John Feffer explains in this short video, the primary difference is that Trump&#8217;s threats have been far more alarming, raising concerns in South Korea and beyond that war is a real possibility, despite the fact that experts universally regard it as the worst possible option. These threats are especially dangerous on a peninsula where U.S. wartime actions left an indelible impression on both sides of the DMZ.<\/p>\n<p>There remains, however, a diplomatic alternative, which the Obama administration never seriously pursued. Can Trump change course?<\/p>\n<p><i>Video by Victoria Borneman and Peter Certo.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>John Feffer is director of <a href=\"http:\/\/fpif.org\/\">Foreign Policy In Focus<\/a><em>and the author of the dystopian novel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Splinterlands-John-Feffer\/dp\/1608467244\/ref=antiwarbookstore\">Splinterlands<\/a>.<\/em>.<\/i><i>Reprinted with permission from <a href=\"http:\/\/fpif.org\/\">Foreign Policy In Focus<\/a>. Originally published in <a href=\"http:\/\/insidesources.com\" title=\"Visit Inside Sources\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Inside Sources<\/a>. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In policy terms, the Trump administration has approached North Korea largely the same way the Obama administration has &#8211; with a heavy reliance on sanctions, appeals to China, and occasional threats. As John Feffer explains in this short video, the primary difference is that Trump&#8217;s threats have been far more alarming, raising concerns in South [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":346,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-29977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/346"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29977"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29979,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29977\/revisions\/29979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29977"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=29977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}