{"id":8780,"date":"2012-12-12T10:57:41","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T16:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=8780"},"modified":"2012-12-12T14:31:59","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T20:31:59","slug":"sen-hoeven-statement-n-korean-rocket-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=8780","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Hoeven Statement, N Korean Rocket Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/hoeven200J.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-8781\" title=\"hoeven200J\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/hoeven200J-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>WASHINGTON Dec 12, 2012 \u00a0\u2013 Senator John Hoeven today issued the following statement in response to North Korea\u2019s successful launch of a long-range rocket ON Tuesday:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNorth Korea\u2019s successful test launch of a long-range rocket on Tuesday underscores in stark terms the need for the United States to continue to develop and deploy effective ballistic missile defenses. It highlights the ongoing relevance of the United States\u2019 strategic deterrent, and should put to rest any discussion of reducing U.S. nuclear forces below levels required under the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) agreement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNorth Korea\u2019s nuclear and missile programs, moreover, are closely linked to Iran. Yesterday\u2019s provocative action makes additional sanctions on Iran designed to end its nuclear program all the more urgent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this critical time, the United States must stand closely with our South Korean and Japanese allies in response to the North Korean threat. The United States should press China\u2019s new leadership to cut off its financial support for North Korea\u2019s leaders and to exert its influence to end North Korea\u2019s nuclear program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Senator Hoeven is a member of the State Foreign Operations and Related Programs Subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee, the ICBM Coalition and the Senate Air Force Caucus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON Dec 12, 2012 \u00a0\u2013 Senator John Hoeven today issued the following statement in response to North Korea\u2019s successful launch of a long-range rocket ON Tuesday: \u201cNorth Korea\u2019s successful test launch of a long-range rocket on Tuesday underscores in stark terms the need for the United States to continue to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8781,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8780","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=8780"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8808,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8780\/revisions\/8808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}