{"id":13218,"date":"2020-01-24T16:00:33","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T07:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/24\/north-korea-appoints-hardline-ex-army-officer-as-new-foreign-minister"},"modified":"2020-01-24T16:00:33","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T07:00:33","slug":"north-korea-appoints-hardline-ex-army-officer-as-new-foreign-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=13218","title":{"rendered":"North Korea appoints hardline ex-army officer as new foreign minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysts say appointment of Ri Son-gwon suggests tougher stance on nuclear talks with US <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/north-korea\">North Korea<\/a> has appointed a former army officer with a reputation as a hardliner as its foreign minister, in a possible sign that it is to adopt a tougher stance in nuclear negotiations with the United States.<\/p>\n<p>After days of speculation, the KCNA state news agency confirmed on Friday that Ri Son-gwon \u2013 who has little diplomatic experience \u2013 had replaced Ri Yong-ho, an English-speaking career diplomat who took part in nuclear talks with Washington.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/24\/north-korea-appoints-hardline-ex-army-officer-as-new-foreign-minister\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysts say appointment of Ri Son-gwon suggests tougher stance on nuclear talks with US North Korea has appointed a former army officer with a reputation as a hardliner as its foreign minister, in a possible sign that it is to adopt a tougher stance i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":344,"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":[41,415,421,40,441,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-donald-trump","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea","category-nuclear-weapons","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13218","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\/344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13219,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13218\/revisions\/13219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}