{"id":22521,"date":"2026-06-18T00:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T00:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22521"},"modified":"2026-06-18T00:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T00:50:07","slug":"china-no-longer-controls-north-korea-peter-zeihan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22521","title":{"rendered":"China No Longer Controls North Korea || Peter Zeihan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officially, North Korea no longer seeks unification with the south. Trump blew his opportunity in his first term to get closer relations with North Korea, despite holding hands for the cameras. North Korea has deeply allied with Russia, giving North Korea advanced military technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"China No Longer Controls North Korea || Peter Zeihan\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ruxntzId1uM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officially, North Korea no longer seeks unification with the south. Trump blew his opportunity in his first term to get closer relations with North Korea, despite holding hands for the cameras. North Korea has deeply allied with Russia, giving North Korea advanced military technology. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ruxntzId1uM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[729,89,390,221,1915,272,355,314,259,277,315,1005,170],"class_list":["post-22521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-asia","tag-china","tag-diplomacy","tag-donald-trump","tag-east-asia","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-military","tag-north-korea","tag-russia","tag-technology","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22522,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22521\/revisions\/22522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}