{"id":11712,"date":"2019-12-02T12:17:58","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T03:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/02\/kim-jong-un-north-korea-debuts-leather-look-as-he-inspects-missile-test"},"modified":"2019-12-02T12:17:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T03:17:58","slug":"trench-warfare-kim-jong-un-debuts-leather-look-as-he-oversees-missile-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11712","title":{"rendered":"Trench warfare: Kim Jong-un debuts leather look as he oversees missile test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Korean leader had previously displayed a penchant for horn-rimmed glasses and black Mao suits made famous by his grandfather <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/kim-jong-un\">Kim Jong-un<\/a>\u2019s recent wardrobe choices have sparked speculation that after eight years of paying sartorial homage to his popular grandfather, North Korea\u2019s leader is attempting to craft an image of his own.<\/p>\n<p>South Korean media commented on the change after Kim was seen last week wearing a leather trench coat during the test of a multiple rocket launcher.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/02\/kim-jong-un-north-korea-debuts-leather-look-as-he-inspects-missile-test\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korean leader had previously displayed a penchant for horn-rimmed glasses and black Mao suits made famous by his grandfather Kim Jong-un\u2019s recent wardrobe choices have sparked speculation that after eight years of paying sartorial homage to his p&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,421,40,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11712"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11733,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11712\/revisions\/11733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}