{"id":11759,"date":"2019-12-03T14:36:05","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T05:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/03\/north-koreas-kim-jong-un-opens-new-city-and-socialist-utopia-of-samjiyon"},"modified":"2019-12-03T14:36:05","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T05:36:05","slug":"north-koreas-kim-jong-un-opens-new-city-and-socialist-utopia-of-samjiyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11759","title":{"rendered":"North Korea&#8217;s Kim Jong-un opens new city and &#8216;socialist utopia&#8217; of Samjiyon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Site near sacred Mount Paektu has a ski resort and can house 4,000 families<\/p>\n<p>North Korea has celebrated the completion of leader Kim Jong-un\u2019s signature construction project, a new city near the sacred mountain where his family claims its roots, with state media on Tuesday calling it the \u201cepitome of modern civilisation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A massive celebration involving fireworks was held at the city near Mount Paektu on Monday, the official KCNA news agency said. Newspaper the Rodong Sinmun, a mouthpiece for the ruling party, ran photos showing Kim smiling as he cut a ribbon at the ceremony, and buildings covered in snow.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/03\/north-koreas-kim-jong-un-opens-new-city-and-socialist-utopia-of-samjiyon\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Site near sacred Mount Paektu has a ski resort and can house 4,000 familiesNorth Korea has celebrated the completion of leader Kim Jong-un\u2019s signature construction project, a new city near the sacred mountain where his family claims its roots, with sta&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11759","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11760,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11759\/revisions\/11760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}