{"id":537,"date":"2013-02-13T04:04:13","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T04:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/?p=537"},"modified":"2013-02-13T14:50:07","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T14:50:07","slug":"sanctioned-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/?p=537","title":{"rendered":"Sanctioned out and still testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Octopus2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-539\" alt=\"Octopus2\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Octopus2-300x250.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/nuclearphilosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Octopus2-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/nuclearphilosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Octopus2.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/n-koreas-test-of-smaller-device-raises-tension-suggests-progress-toward-creating-a-viable-weapon\/2013\/02\/12\/fa166e88-7503-11e2-aa12-e6cf1d31106b_story.html\">Washington Post<\/a>, North Korea is sanctioned out. The country is already so heavily sanctioned that more restrictions won&#8217;t have any effect; there is nothing left to take away. Kim Jong-un doesn&#8217;t even have a real octopus to \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kimjongunlookingatthings.tumblr.com\/\">look at<\/a> any more (touching a life-size replica is much safer anyway). So what will be the response to North Korea&#8217;s latest act of defiance? Luckily for Kim Jung Il, their latest nuclear test \u00a0is not something that President Obama can simply \u00a0sweep under the rug-as much as he might like to do so. Thanks to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctbto.org\/\">Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization<\/a>, there is an international organization that monitors and reports on evidence of nuclear weapons tests. That frees up Kim Jung Un to lay his gaze on \u00a0more important things \u00a0because others are doing the work of publicizing the size ( 7kt) of his nation&#8217;s \u00a0nuclear test. In fact, not to be out done by Iran, North Korea tested just in time to warrant a mention in Obama&#8217;s State of the Union address. He singled out North Korea as a threat, but didn&#8217;t further elaborate on earlier statements condemning the test and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/obama-calls-nkorea-nuke-test-highly-provocative-urges-swift-international-repsonse\/2013\/02\/12\/d13706e2-74e2-11e2-9889-60bfcbb02149_story.html\">calling for &#8220;swift and credible action&#8221; from the\u00a0international\u00a0community<\/a>. \u00a0North Korea has perfected the art of bringing powerful members of the international community to the bargaining table, holding out the carrot of giving up its nuclear program in order to compel the provision of goods and services in return for the promise of a nuclear-free Korean\u00a0Peninsula. It&#8217;s a good gambit as long as North Korea can keep it up.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the \u00a0Washington Post, North Korea is sanctioned out. The country is already so heavily sanctioned that more restrictions won&#8217;t have any effect; there is nothing left to take away. Kim Jong-un doesn&#8217;t even have a real octopus to \u00a0look at any more (touching a life-size replica is much safer anyway). So what will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,29,30,1],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-korea","category-nuclear-diplomacy","category-nuclear-security","category-uncategorized","tag-state-of-the-union"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/nuclearphilosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Octopus.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3CaZH-8F","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":541,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions\/541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}