{"id":179876,"date":"2017-09-28T18:10:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/09\/28\/north-korea-is-desperate\/"},"modified":"2017-09-28T18:10:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T23:10:00","slug":"north-korea-is-desperate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/09\/28\/north-korea-is-desperate\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea is Desperate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, I don&#8217;t mean that the sanctions are causing real problems.  Nor do I mean that military posturing by the US has them terrified.  What I mean is that Donald Trump is simply too weird for them to understand, so they are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/asia_pacific\/north-korea-seeks-help-from-republican-analysts-whats-up-with-trump\/2017\/09\/26\/ea91909e-a278-11e7-8c37-e1d99ad6aa22_story.html\">trying to hire Republican political consultants to explain what the f%$# is going on<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cTheir number-one concern is Trump. They can\u2019t figure him out,\u201d said one person with direct knowledge of North Korea\u2019s approach of experts on Asia with Republican connections.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You and me both can&#8217;t figure Trump out.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;I think that the DPRK should consider hiring Paul Manafort, seeing as how he&#8217;s a Republican political consultant, and he&#8217;s not got a lot of clients right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, I don&#8217;t mean that the sanctions are causing real problems. Nor do I mean that military posturing by the US has them terrified. What I mean is that Donald Trump is simply too weird for them to understand, so they are trying to hire Republican political consultants to explain what the f%$# is going &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[573,543,394,414,390,421],"class_list":["post-179876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-donald-trump","tag-dprk","tag-foreign-relations","tag-psychology","tag-snark","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179876"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}