{"id":71517,"date":"2017-04-16T16:50:14","date_gmt":"2017-04-16T20:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71517"},"modified":"2017-04-16T16:51:06","modified_gmt":"2017-04-16T20:51:06","slug":"nork-missile-fizzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71517","title":{"rendered":"NORK Missile Fizzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NDtBF is playing brinksmanship again, attempting to launch a medium range ballistic missile today in recognition of the 105th birthday of the late North Korea founder Kim Il Sung, NDtBF\u2019s grandfather. Unfortunately, things didn\u2019t go as planned.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018North Korean missile fired from the east coast of the country Sunday \u201cblew up almost immediately,\u201d officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump did not release a statement on the launch. Defense Secretary Mattis said Trump and his military team &#8220;are aware of North Korea&#8217;s most recent unsuccessful missile launch. The president has no further comment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Deputy National Security Adviser K.T. McFarland on Sunday declined to say whether the U.S. cyber-sabotaged North Korea\u2019s failed missile launch, saying only that it was \u201ca fizzle.\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Sabotage or not, I\u2019ve been involved in flight test now for, well, a long time. One can learn a lot from failures. On the other hand, had this launch been successful, I believe it would have been shot down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NDtBF is playing brinksmanship again, attempting to launch a medium range ballistic missile today in recognition of the 105th birthday of the late North Korea founder Kim Il Sung, NDtBF\u2019s grandfather. Unfortunately, things didn\u2019t go as planned. \u2018North Korean missile fired from the east coast of the country Sunday \u201cblew up almost immediately,\u201d officials said. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-iBv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}