{"id":126867,"date":"2017-08-11T09:38:41","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T14:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=126867"},"modified":"2017-08-11T09:38:41","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T14:38:41","slug":"u-s-engaged-in-back-channel-diplomacy-n-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=126867","title":{"rendered":"U.S. engaged in &#8220;Back-Channel&#8221; diplomacy, N. Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-126868\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/KoreaNorthMap-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/KoreaNorthMap-243x300.jpg 243w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/KoreaNorthMap-768x948.jpg 768w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/KoreaNorthMap.jpg 830w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/KoreaNorthMap-142x175.jpg 142w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The Associated Press has learned that the Trump administration has quietly engaged in back-channel diplomacy with North Korea for several months.<\/p>\n<p>It was known the two sides had discussions to secure the June release of an American university student. But it wasn&#8217;t known until now that the contacts have continued or that the talks broached matters other than U.S. detainees.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. officials and others familiar with the exchanges say they&#8217;re occurring between the U.S. envoy for North Korea policy and a senior North Korean diplomat at the country&#8217;s U.N. mission.<\/p>\n<p>The diplomats have discussed other Americans imprisoned in the communist country and deteriorating relations between the longtime foes, amid heightened fears of military confrontation.<\/p>\n<p>The officials weren&#8217;t authorized to speak publicly on the matter and spoke on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The Associated Press has learned that the Trump administration has quietly engaged in back-channel diplomacy with North Korea for several months. It was known the two sides had discussions to secure the June release of an American university student. But it wasn&#8217;t known until now that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126870,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126867\/revisions\/126870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}