{"id":9468,"date":"2017-03-09T03:46:38","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T03:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/us-dismisses-china-proposal-on-n-korea-military-halt\/"},"modified":"2017-03-09T03:46:38","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T03:46:38","slug":"us-dismisses-china-proposal-on-n-korea-military-halt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/us-dismisses-china-proposal-on-n-korea-military-halt\/","title":{"rendered":"US dismisses China proposal on N Korea military halt"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Man watches TV report on North Korean launches in Seoul\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/DB78\/production\/_95048165_mediaitem95048163.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  AP                                                    <\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">US officials have dismissed China&#039;s suggestion that North Korea could halt its missile and nuclear test in exchange for a suspension of US military activity in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The US state department said it was not &quot;a viable deal&quot; while the UN ambassador said North Korea was not &quot;rational&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>China&#039;s suggestion came after North Korea launched four ballistic missiles, breaking international sanctions. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the US has begun deploying a missile defence shield in South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>It is also conducting its annual large-scale drills with the South Korean military, which routinely infuriate North Korea. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is new in North Korea&#039;s missile technology?<\/li>\n<li>What will Trump do about North Korea?<\/li>\n<li>Reality Check: Has North Korea become a greater threat?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Wednesday that the security situation on the Korean peninsula was like &quot;two accelerating trains, coming toward each other with neither side willing to give way&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>A mutual halt of military operations by all parties would be the first step towards easing tensions and reopening negotiations, he said.<\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  AFP<figcaption>Image caption                                      US ambassador Nikki Haley said all options remained on the table in handling North Korea                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But US state department spokesman Mark Toner said this was like comparing &quot;apples and oranges&quot;. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;What we&#039;re doing in terms of our defence co-operation with South Korea is in no way comparable to the blatant disregard that North Korea has shown with respect to international law.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>But he said the US needed to look for new strategies on North Korea. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;All of the efforts we have taken thus far to attempt to persuade North Korea to engage in meaningful negotiations have fallen short, to be honest,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;So we need to look at new ways to convince them, to persuade them, that it&#039;s in their interests.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The UN Security Council held an emergency meeting on Wednesday, having issued a stronger than usual condemnation of the latest North Korean test.<\/p>\n<p>It accused North Korea of &quot;increasingly destabilising behaviour&quot; which risked sparking a regional arms race. <\/p>\n<p>The US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley later told reporters that &quot;all options were on the table&quot; regarding North Korea.<\/p>\n<p>But she said that the world was &quot;not dealing with a rational person&quot; when it came to the North Korean leader.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It is an unbelievable, irresponsible arrogance that we are seeing coming out of Kim Jong-un at this time,&quot; she said. <\/p>\n<p>Ms Haley also repeated US assurances that the installation of the US-made Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense system (Thaad) in South - to shoot down missile attacks from the North - was not a threat to China.<\/p>\n<p>China has been angered by the system, as it believes its powerful radar will enable the US to monitor its military activities too.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Haley said the US was &quot;not going to leave South Korea standing there with the threat of North Korea facing them and not help&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Japan and South Korea also rejected the idea of a deal with North Korea.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shoots down short and medium-range ballistic missiles in the terminal phase of their flight<\/li>\n<li>Uses hit-to-kill technology - where kinetic energy destroys the incoming warhead<\/li>\n<li>Has a range of 200km and can reach an altitude of 150km<\/li>\n<li>US has previously deployed it in Guam and Hawaii as a measure against potential attacks from North Korea <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What impact will S Korea&#039;s expanded missile defence system have?<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. <\/strong>The enemy launches a missile<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. <\/strong>The Thaad radar system detects the launch, which is relayed to command and control<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong> Thaad command and control instructs the launch of an interceptor missile<\/p>\n<p><strong>4.<\/strong> The interceptor missile is fired at the enemy projectile<\/p>\n<p><strong>5.<\/strong> The enemy projectile is destroyed in the terminal phase of flight<\/p>\n<p>The launcher trucks can hold up to eight interceptor missiles.<\/p>\n<p><a rel='nofollow' href=http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-39214525 target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright AP US officials have dismissed China&#039;s suggestion that North Korea could halt its missile and nuclear test in exchange for a suspension of US military activity in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}