{"id":34018,"date":"2019-03-04T06:22:48","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T06:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=34018"},"modified":"2019-03-04T06:22:48","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T06:22:48","slug":"us-south-korea-cancel-major-war-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=34018","title":{"rendered":"US, South Korea cancel major war games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Seoul (CNN)<\/cite>The US and South Korea have canceled major war games that have long been a source of tensions on the Korean Peninsula in order to &#8220;support diplomatic efforts&#8221; with North Korea. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">News of the cancellation comes after the second summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/03\/02\/politics\/trump-kim-summit-dream-ripley-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">ended without an agreement<\/a>, though the two sides did pledge to continue to work towards denuclearization and a peace settlement. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">In a statement, South Korea said Defense Minister Jeong Kyeong-doo and acting US Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan had discussed the summit and expected more &#8220;active dialogue between the US and North Korea based on the outcome of the talks.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seoul (CNN)The US and South Korea have canceled major war games that have long been a source of tensions on the Korean Peninsula in order to &#8220;support diplomatic efforts&#8221; with North Korea. News of the cancellation comes after the second summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ended without&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":34019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}