{"id":11104,"date":"2017-08-19T21:22:28","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T02:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=11104"},"modified":"2017-08-19T21:22:28","modified_gmt":"2017-08-20T02:22:28","slug":"the-clouds-around-north-korea-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/08\/19\/the-clouds-around-north-korea-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"The Clouds Around North Korea, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/08\/19\/the-clouds-around-north-korea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mentioned<\/a> <em><strong>38 North<\/strong><\/em> was a little annoyed at the media earlier today. Now I see they&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/www.38north.org\/2017\/08\/editor081517\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">outright angry<\/a> at a specific South Korean media company:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For those of us steeped in nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, this headline makes no sense. ICBMs are land-based missiles fired from mobile launchers or underground silos. So it would indeed be an amazing feat of technical skill if the North Koreans were able to pull this off.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is this headline was fake news although the average reader would certainly have been excused for not recognizing that. In fact, it was a big mistake by the Yonhap News Agency, South Korea\u2019s largest news outlet that serves not only South Koreans but also has a regional and global readership. What makes the headline even more alarming for us is that it was based on a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.38north.org\/2017\/08\/sinpo081117\/\">38 North satellite imagery analysis<\/a>\u00a0by Joseph S. Bermudez Jr. BUT he didn\u2019t say what the headline says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And <em><strong>Yonhap<\/strong><\/em> was exceptionally slow at issuing a correction. The lesson here? Read any news about North Korea fairly critically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned 38 North was a little annoyed at the media earlier today. Now I see they&#8217;re outright angry at a specific South Korean media company: For those of us steeped in nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, this headline makes no sense. ICBMs are land-based missiles fired from mobile launchers \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/08\/19\/the-clouds-around-north-korea-ctd\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11105,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11104\/revisions\/11105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}