{"id":1678,"date":"2019-07-08T19:00:10","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T10:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/08\/son-of-high-profile-south-korean-defector-moves-to-north-korea"},"modified":"2019-07-08T19:00:10","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T10:00:10","slug":"son-of-high-profile-south-korean-defector-moves-to-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=1678","title":{"rendered":"Son of high-profile South Korean defector &#8216;moves to North Korea&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State media reports arrival of Choe In-guk, son of ex-foreign minister who defected in 1986<\/p>\n<p>The son of the highest-profile South Korean ever to defect to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/north-korea\">North Korea<\/a> has reportedly defected to the communist state in a rare switch of political allegiance.<\/p>\n<p>Choe In-guk said he had decided to \u201cpermanently resettle\u201din North Korea to honour his parents\u2019 wish that he live there and devote himself to the unification of the Korean peninsula, according to North Korea\u2019s propaganda website Uriminzokkiri.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/08\/son-of-high-profile-south-korean-defector-moves-to-north-korea\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State media reports arrival of Choe In-guk, son of ex-foreign minister who defected in 1986The son of the highest-profile South Korean ever to defect to North Korea has reportedly defected to the communist state in a rare switch of political allegiance&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"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":[41,40,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-north-korea","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\/1678","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\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1678"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1679,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions\/1679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}