{"id":18958,"date":"2020-06-04T12:29:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T03:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/04\/kim-yo-jong-warns-south-korea-to-tackle-evil-propaganda-balloons"},"modified":"2020-06-04T12:29:28","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T03:29:28","slug":"kim-yo-jong-warns-south-korea-to-tackle-evil-propaganda-balloons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18958","title":{"rendered":"Kim Yo-jong warns South Korea to tackle &#8216;evil&#8217; propaganda balloons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Korean leader\u2019s sister says continued air drops by defectors could jeopardise peacekeeping agreement<\/p>\n<p>Kim Yo-jong, the powerful sister of the North Korean leader, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/kim-jong-un\">Kim Jong-un<\/a>, has warned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/south-korea\">South Korea<\/a> to stop propaganda leaflets coming over the border, warning it could wreck an agreement to reduce military tensions.<\/p>\n<p>Her statement came after anti-Pyongyang leaflets were sent across the border earlier this week by a group of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2010\/jun\/25\/korean-war-haven-south-defectors-north\">North Korean defectors<\/a>. The leaflets concealed in 500,000 balloons criticised Kim Jong-un\u2019s nuclear threats, according to the Yonhap news agency. Previous messages have also condemned North Korea\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/jun\/07\/beatings-killings-gulags-north-korea-rights-abuses-likely-to-be-ignored-at-summit\">human rights record<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/04\/kim-yo-jong-warns-south-korea-to-tackle-evil-propaganda-balloons\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korean leader\u2019s sister says continued air drops by defectors could jeopardise peacekeeping agreementKim Yo-jong, the powerful sister of the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, has warned South Korea to stop propaganda leaflets coming over the borde&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":972,"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":[41,421,40,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea","category-south-korea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18958","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\/972"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18959,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18958\/revisions\/18959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}