{"id":17628,"date":"2020-04-28T14:14:32","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T05:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/28\/where-is-kim-jong-un-why-the-whereabouts-of-north-korean-leader-remain-a-mystery"},"modified":"2020-04-28T14:14:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T05:14:32","slug":"where-is-kim-jong-un-why-the-whereabouts-of-north-korean-leader-remain-a-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17628","title":{"rendered":"Where is Kim Jong-un? Why the whereabouts of North Korean leader remain a mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pyongyang\u2019s tight rein on the flow of intelligence means the outside world knows little about the missing ruler<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/kim-jong-un\">Kim Jong-un<\/a> has not been seen in public for more than two weeks, yet the world has few clues as to the North Korean leader\u2019s whereabouts or the state of his health.<\/p>\n<p>Even Donald Trump, arguably the one person outside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/north-korea\">North Korea<\/a> who might have been expected to shed light on the mystery surrounding his \u201cfriend\u201d, did little to end the speculation on Monday when he claimed to have a \u201cvery good idea\u201d about how Kim was faring.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/28\/where-is-kim-jong-un-why-the-whereabouts-of-north-korean-leader-remain-a-mystery\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pyongyang\u2019s tight rein on the flow of intelligence means the outside world knows little about the missing rulerKim Jong-un has not been seen in public for more than two weeks, yet the world has few clues as to the North Korean leader\u2019s whereabouts or t&#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":[41,421,40,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-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\/17628","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=17628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17629,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17628\/revisions\/17629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}