{"id":63223,"date":"2018-05-02T12:47:40","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T07:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=63223"},"modified":"2018-05-02T12:47:40","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T07:47:40","slug":"s-korea-wants-un-to-verify-planned-closure-of-n-koreas-nuclear-test-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=63223","title":{"rendered":"S. Korea wants UN to verify planned closure of N. Korea&#8217;s nuclear test site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>United Nations, United States, May 2 (TNS): South Korean President Moon Jae-in has asked the United Nations to verify the planned closure of North Korea&#8217;s nuclear test site, a UN spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>Moon made the request in a phone call to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday, a few days after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un told the South Korean leader he planned to shut down the test site in May.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The president sought the support of the United Nations to verify the imminent closure of the DPRK&#8217;s nuclear test site, as announced by the DPRK Chairman Kim Jong Un,&#8221; said UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric. The Democratic People&#8217;s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is North Korea&#8217;s official name.<\/p>\n<p>Moon also asked for UN support to &#8220;transform the demilitarized zone into a peace zone&#8221; between the two Koreas, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Guterres said the United Nations was ready to discuss possible forms of support, but no details were provided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; United Nations, United States, May 2 (TNS): South Korean President Moon Jae-in has asked the United Nations to verify the planned closure of North Korea&#8217;s nuclear test site, a UN spokesman said. Moon made the request in a phone call to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday, a few days after North Korean leader [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63223","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=63223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63225,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63223\/revisions\/63225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}