{"id":3136,"date":"2018-03-12T23:01:07","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T23:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3136"},"modified":"2018-03-12T23:01:43","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T23:01:43","slug":"trump-risks-trading-away-the-us-south-korean-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/03\/12\/trump-risks-trading-away-the-us-south-korean-alliance\/","title":{"rendered":"TRUMP RISKS TRADING AWAY THE US-SOUTH KOREAN ALLIANCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/S-KOREA-US.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2681\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/S-KOREA-US-1024x653.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/S-KOREA-US-1024x653.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/S-KOREA-US-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/S-KOREA-US-768x490.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/S-KOREA-US-560x357.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/S-KOREA-US-260x166.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/S-KOREA-US-160x102.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/S-KOREA-US.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced: Defense One<\/p>\n<p>By Thomas Wright<\/p>\n<p>In August of last year, days before he was forced out of the White House, Steve Bannon gave an unusual interview to Robert Kuttner, a journalist at The American Prospect. The article made headlines because Bannon tore into his rivals, especially Gary Cohn, and in a progressive magazine no less.<\/p>\n<p>But Kuttner\u2019s piece also contained an astonishing detail about North Korea. He wrote that Bannon said he \u201cmight consider a deal in which China got North Korea to freeze its nuclear buildup with verifiable inspections and the United States removed its troops from the peninsula.\u201d Given Bannon\u2019s status as a hardline nationalist, some viewed his remark as a proxy for what President Trump might think.<\/p>\n<p>Such a deal would be widely regarded as an unmitigated disaster for the United States. It would trade one of America\u2019s most important alliances for a promise to freeze North Korea\u2019s nuclear weapons program where it is\u2014which is to say, it would legitimize its existing arsenal. It would signal that the United States cares little for its friends and is only concerned about direct threats to the homeland.<\/p>\n<p>Image sourced: AP Photo\/Ahn Young-joon<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/ideas\/2018\/03\/trump-risks-trading-away-us-south-korean-alliance\/146543\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced: Defense One By Thomas Wright In August of last year, days before he was forced out of the White House, Steve Bannon gave an unusual interview to Robert Kuttner, a journalist at The American Prospect. The article made headlines because Bannon tore into his rivals, especially Gary Cohn, and in a progressive magazine no&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/03\/12\/trump-risks-trading-away-the-us-south-korean-alliance\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TRUMP RISKS TRADING AWAY THE US-SOUTH KOREAN ALLIANCE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[636,243,22],"class_list":["post-3136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","tag-north-korea","tag-united-states","tag-white-house","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3137,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136\/revisions\/3137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}