{"id":193617,"date":"2022-06-22T00:18:49","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T18:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=193617"},"modified":"2022-06-22T00:18:49","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T18:48:49","slug":"most-land-mine-use-by-us-military-banned-except-for-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/06\/22\/most-land-mine-use-by-us-military-banned-except-for-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Most land mine use by US military banned, except for Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Washington, Jun 21 (AP) President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration announced Tuesday that it would restrict the use of anti-personnel land mines by the US military, aligning the country&#8217;s policy more closely with an international treaty banning the deadly explosives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The announcement reverses a more permissive stance by then-President Donald Trump, and it concludes a review that has lasted for more than a year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anti-personnel land mines are buried underground or scattered on the surface, and they can pose a lethal threat to civilians long after combat has ended.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Under the new policy, the US will restrict the use of these explosives outside of its efforts to help defend South Korea from a potential North Korean invasion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That leaves the US short of full compliance with the Ottawa Convention, the 1997 treaty intended to eliminate anti-personnel land mines.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The announcement comes as Russia deploys such mines during its invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The world has once again witnessed the devastating impact that anti-personnel landmines can have in the context of Russia&#8217;s brutal and unprovoked war in Ukraine, where Russian forces&#8217; use of these and other munitions have caused extensive harm to civilians and civilian objects, National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson said in a statement. (AP)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, Jun 21 (AP) President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration announced Tuesday that it would restrict the use of anti-personnel land mines by the US military, aligning the country&#8217;s policy more closely with an international treaty banning the deadly explosives. The announcement reverses a more permissive stance by then-President Donald Trump, and it concludes a review that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-193617","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}