{"id":6629,"date":"2017-04-24T14:00:23","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T14:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2017\/04\/24\/u-s-must-talk-to-north-korea\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:56:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:56:39","slug":"u-s-must-talk-to-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/u-s-must-talk-to-north-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. must talk to North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman Politics and International Affairs professor Akan Malici warns of dire consequences for the U.S. and the world if cooler heads don&#8217;t prevail with respect to North Korea. As guest columnist for <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/opinion\/contributors\/2017\/04\/20\/commentary-us-must-talk-north-korea\/100662360\/\">The Greenville News<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, Malici says, &#8220;Today, instead of direct diplomacy, the talk is about preemptive strikes. The consequences would be impossible to contain. Even if [preemptive strikes] were to neutralize North Korea\u2019s nuclear arsenal, they would not be able to destroy all its conventional weapons. This could trigger a second Korean war, with disastrous regional and global consequences that, of course, would not leave the U.S. unaffected.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman Politics and International Affairs professor Akan Malici warns of dire consequences for the U.S. and the world if cooler heads don&#8217;t prevail with respect to North Korea. As guest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":6630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}