{"id":17782,"date":"2020-05-02T11:40:28","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T02:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/02\/kim-jong-un-reappears-in-north-korea-after-weeks-of-speculation-reports"},"modified":"2020-05-02T11:40:28","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T02:40:28","slug":"kim-jong-un-reappears-in-north-korea-after-weeks-of-speculation-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17782","title":{"rendered":"Kim Jong-un reappears in North Korea after weeks of speculation &#8211; reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Korean state media has released pictures purportedly showing the leader attending the opening of a fertiliser factory <\/p>\n<p>The North Korean leader, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/kim-jong-un\">Kim Jong-un<\/a>, has appeared in public for the first time in almost three weeks, according to state media, following <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\">speculation<\/a> that he had been seriously ill following heart surgery.<\/p>\n<p>The state news agency KCNA released <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/martyn_williams\/status\/1256363500793987079\">photographs<\/a> purportedly showing Kim opening a fertilizer plant in Sunchon, north of the capital Pyongyang.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/02\/kim-jong-un-reappears-in-north-korea-after-weeks-of-speculation-reports\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korean state media has released pictures purportedly showing the leader attending the opening of a fertiliser factory The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, has appeared in public for the first time in almost three weeks, according to state media,&#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":[41,421,40,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17782","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\/17782","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=17782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17783,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17782\/revisions\/17783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}