{"id":30504,"date":"2017-11-12T16:10:22","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T11:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=30504"},"modified":"2017-11-12T16:10:22","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T11:10:22","slug":"ugly-war-of-words-breaks-out-between-us-president-north-korean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=30504","title":{"rendered":"Ugly war of words breaks out between US President, North Korean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hanoi, Nov. 12 (TNS):<\/strong> An ugly war of words breaks out between US President and North Korean.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump has again traded barbs with North Korea, shortly before offering to mediate in a heated regional dispute.<\/p>\n<p>He took to Twitter to complain he would never call North Korean leader Kim Jong-un &#8220;short and fat&#8221;, after N.Korean foreign ministry called him &#8220;old&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It was one of a series of remarks he made on social media before volunteering his services over maritime claims in the South China Sea.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m a very good mediator,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia and Brunei all have competing claims to territory in the South China Sea.<\/p>\n<p>Tensions with China have been high in both Vietnam and the Philippines, inflamed by the formers island-building and naval patrols.<\/p>\n<p>A framework for a code of conduct was agreed in August, but this is still only an outline, with more negotiations due to take place before it can be legally binding.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Trump, who has long styled himself as a dealmaker, suggested his expertise could aid the process.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I can help mediate or arbitrate, please let me know,&#8221; Mr Trump told his Vietnamese counterpart, Tran Dai Quang, at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Hanoi.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hanoi, Nov. 12 (TNS): An ugly war of words breaks out between US President and North Korean. Donald Trump has again traded barbs with North Korea, shortly before offering to mediate in a heated regional dispute. He took to Twitter to complain he would never call North Korean leader Kim Jong-un &#8220;short and fat&#8221;, after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1087,733],"class_list":["post-30504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-hanoi","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30505,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30504\/revisions\/30505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}