{"id":16169,"date":"2020-03-21T11:57:17","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T02:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/21\/north-korea-fires-projectiles-into-sea-for-third-time-in-a-month"},"modified":"2020-03-21T11:57:17","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T02:57:17","slug":"north-korea-fires-projectiles-into-sea-for-third-time-in-a-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16169","title":{"rendered":"North Korea fires projectiles into sea for third time in a month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suspected short-range missile launches come as Pyongyang announces legislature to meet in April amid coronavirus pandemic<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/north-korea\">North Korea<\/a> fired two projectiles that appeared to be short-range ballistic missiles into the sea off the east coast of the Korean peninsula, South Korea\u2019s military reported.<\/p>\n<p>The launch on Saturday follows two earlier this month, when North Korea <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/02\/north-korea-fires-two-projectiles-ending-its-ban-on-long-range-tests\">fired short-range missiles<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/09\/north-korea-fires-projectiles-into-sea-for-second-week-running\">multiple projectiles<\/a>, according to South Korea\u2019s military, drawing US and Chinese appeals for Pyongyang to return to talks on ending its nuclear and missile programmes.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/21\/north-korea-fires-projectiles-into-sea-for-third-time-in-a-month\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suspected short-range missile launches come as Pyongyang announces legislature to meet in April amid coronavirus pandemicNorth Korea fired two projectiles that appeared to be short-range ballistic missiles into the sea off the east coast of the Korean &#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":[41,1069,914,421,40,441,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea","category-nuclear-weapons","category-south-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\/16169","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=16169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16170,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16169\/revisions\/16170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}