{"id":17397,"date":"2020-04-21T12:29:02","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T03:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/21\/north-korean-leader-kim-jong-un-has-heart-surgery-report"},"modified":"2020-04-21T16:53:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T07:53:31","slug":"north-korean-leader-kim-jong-un-has-heart-surgery-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17397","title":{"rendered":"South Korea and China play down Kim Jong-un ill-health claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Korean leader has not been seen in public for days and reports said he had undergone heart surgery<\/p>\n<p>South Korea and China have played down speculation that Kim Jong-un is seriously ill, after a Seoul-based website reported that the North Korean leader had undergone heart surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Daily NK claimed Kim, who has not been seen in public for 10 days, was being treated at a private villa following the procedure this month.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/21\/north-korean-leader-kim-jong-un-has-heart-surgery-report\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korean leader has not been seen in public for days and reports said he had undergone heart surgerySouth Korea and China have played down speculation that Kim Jong-un is seriously ill, after a Seoul-based website reported that the North Korean lea&#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":[41,421,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17397","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\/17397","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=17397"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17414,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17397\/revisions\/17414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}