{"id":17674,"date":"2020-04-29T12:41:31","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T03:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/29\/kim-jong-un-could-be-sheltering-from-covid-19-pandemic-say-us-and-seoul"},"modified":"2020-04-29T12:41:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T03:41:31","slug":"kim-jong-un-could-be-sheltering-from-covid-19-pandemic-say-us-and-seoul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17674","title":{"rendered":"Kim Jong-un could be sheltering from Covid-19 pandemic, say US and Seoul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite North Korean leader\u2019s absence from key events, experts in the South say he is most probably at resort town of Wonsan <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/kim-jong-un\">Kim Jong-un<\/a> is not ill and could be sheltering from the coronavirus pandemic, according to South Korean and US officials, in the latest possible explanation for the North Korean leader\u2019s <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\">recent absence<\/a> from public life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/north-korea\">North Korea<\/a> insists it has yet to identify a single case of Covid-19, despite sharing a border with China, where the outbreak is believed to have started.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/29\/kim-jong-un-could-be-sheltering-from-covid-19-pandemic-say-us-and-seoul\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite North Korean leader\u2019s absence from key events, experts in the South say he is most probably at resort town of Wonsan Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageKim Jong-un is not ill and could be sheltering from the coronavirus&#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":[41,1069,421,40,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","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\/17674","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=17674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17675,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17674\/revisions\/17675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}