{"id":3048,"date":"2006-10-13T16:55:51","date_gmt":"2006-10-13T23:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/13\/has-the-blockade-of-north-korea-begun\/"},"modified":"2007-02-14T09:36:29","modified_gmt":"2007-02-14T16:36:29","slug":"has-the-blockade-of-north-korea-begun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/13\/has-the-blockade-of-north-korea-begun\/","title":{"rendered":"Has the Blockade of North Korea Begun?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. has recently raised the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2006\/10\/10\/news\/pentagon.php\">possibility<\/a> of a l<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2003\/04\/27\/wkor27.xml\">ong-planned embargo<\/a> of North Korea, but the Chinese and the Russians are against it, and probably won&#8217;t vote for it in the UN Security Council. However, I have it from a very good on-the-scene <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ddaymuseum.org\/store\/images\/join%20the%20navy.jpg\">source<\/a> that the U.S. isn&#8217;t waiting for the UN to act. U.S. Navy ships are already blockading shipping coming into North Korea, and they aren&#8217;t letting anything out, either.<\/p>\n<p>If true, this is a very dangerous course to take: the North Koreans, a cranky lot in any case, are not likely to take kindly to it. An incident is inevitable, one that could escalate rather quickly into a full-scale conflict on the Korean peninsula.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. has recently raised the possibility of a long-planned embargo of North Korea, but the Chinese and the Russians are against it, and probably won&#8217;t vote for it in the UN Security Council. However, I have it from a very good on-the-scene source that the U.S. isn&#8217;t waiting for the UN to act. U.S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"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\/3048","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3048"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}