{"id":11836,"date":"2019-12-06T08:04:08","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T23:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/06\/man-charged-over-alleged-north-korea-missile-deal-ordered-to-stand-trial-in-australia"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:04:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T23:04:08","slug":"man-charged-over-alleged-north-korea-missile-deal-ordered-to-stand-trial-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11836","title":{"rendered":"Man charged over alleged North Korea missile deal ordered to stand trial in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chan Han Choi, the first person charged under Australia\u2019s weapons of mass destruction laws, tells court he can\u2019t get a fair trial and is a political prisoner <\/p>\n<p>An Australian man charged with trying to broker missile deals for the North Korean regime has told a court he cannot get a fair trial in Australia, saying his phone calls with his lawyer are being listened to, and even prime ministers have publicly condemned the allegations against him.<\/p>\n<p>But Justice Ian Harrison, in the New South Wales supreme court, dismissed the Chan Han Choi\u2019s application for a permanent stay of proceedings, saying he will stand trial next February.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/06\/man-charged-over-alleged-north-korea-missile-deal-ordered-to-stand-trial-in-australia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chan Han Choi, the first person charged under Australia\u2019s weapons of mass destruction laws, tells court he can\u2019t get a fair trial and is a political prisoner An Australian man charged with trying to broker missile deals for the North Korean regime has &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"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":[709,41,43,324,322,53,769,981,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arms-trade","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-politics","category-australian-security-and-counter-terrorism","category-human-rights","category-law-australia","category-malcolm-turnbull","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\/11836","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\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11837,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11836\/revisions\/11837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}