{"id":54782,"date":"2019-12-15T08:56:28","date_gmt":"2019-12-15T00:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=54782"},"modified":"2019-12-15T09:03:34","modified_gmt":"2019-12-15T01:03:34","slug":"n-korea-chief-of-general-staff-says-army-ready-to-carry-out-any-decision-by-top-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=54782","title":{"rendered":"N. Korea Chief Of General Staff Says Army Ready To Carry Out Any Decision By Top Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>PYONGYANG, Dec 15 (NNN-KCNA) &#8211; Pak Jong Chon, chief of the General Staff of the Korean People&#8217;s Army (KPA), said here on Saturday, the army was fully ready to thoroughly carry out any decision of the top leader of the country, Kim Jong Un.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We should be ready to cope with political and military provocations of hostile forces, and be familiar with both dialogue and confrontation,&#8221; Pak said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pak also said, he was glad that the Academy of Defence Science has recently registered successes in bolstering the defence capabilities, while &#8220;successfully conducting tests of great significance one after another.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>N. Korea carried out &#8220;another crucial test&#8221; at the Sohae Satellite Launching Ground, on Friday evening, it was reported yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday&#8217;s test came, about a week after the country conducted what it called, &#8220;a very important test,&#8221; at the same satellite launch site, on Dec 7.&#8211; NNN-KCNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PYONGYANG, Dec 15 (NNN-KCNA) &#8211; Pak Jong Chon, chief of the General Staff of the Korean People&#8217;s Army (KPA), said here on Saturday, the army was fully ready to thoroughly carry out any decision of the top leader of the country, Kim Jong Un. &#8220;We should be ready to cope with political and military provocations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":54785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,286,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54782"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}