{"id":183494,"date":"2013-02-12T19:45:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T00:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/02\/12\/boom-2\/"},"modified":"2013-02-12T19:45:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T00:45:00","slug":"boom-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/02\/12\/boom-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The DPRK <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/02\/13\/world\/asia\/north-korea-nuclear-test.html?_r=0\">conducts a 3<sup>rd<\/sup> nuclear weapons test<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">At the United Nations, the desire to impose ever harsher sanctions on North Korea to try to curb its development of nuclear arms and ballistic missiles has long stalled in the face of Chinese opposition \u2014 the standard chain of events playing out here again on Tuesday after North Korea said it had carried out its third nuclear test.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Security Council diplomats and the experts who track sanctions enforcement are quick to tick off the contents of a deeper toolbox that could be used to try to corral Pyongyang\u2019s nuclear ambitions.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">They include banning specific, high-tech items used in the nuclear program like epoxy paste for centrifuges; limiting or outlawing some banking transactions; and a far more stringent inspection of ships bound to and from North Korea.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">But the sanctions in place are almost exclusively focused on nuclear and ballistic missile activity.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The problem is that we have way too much posturing on both side.<\/p>\n<p>They need to stop setting off nukes, and we need to make a formal exchange of ambassadors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DPRK conducts a 3rd nuclear weapons test: At the United Nations, the desire to impose ever harsher sanctions on North Korea to try to curb its development of nuclear arms and ballistic missiles has long stalled in the face of Chinese opposition \u2014 the standard chain of events playing out here again on Tuesday &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1155,1044,1042],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dprk","category-nuclear-weapons","category-proliferation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183494"}],"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=183494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}