{"id":19360,"date":"2020-06-16T12:55:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T03:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/16\/north-korea-ready-to-send-troops-into-demilitarised-zone-as-leaflets-row-escalates"},"modified":"2020-06-16T18:31:18","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T09:31:18","slug":"north-korea-ready-to-send-troops-into-demilitarised-zone-as-leaflets-row-escalates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19360","title":{"rendered":"North Korea blows up liaison office in row over defectors&#8217; leaflet campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Jong-un\u2019s sister had said office, set up to improve co-operation with South Korea, was \u2018useless\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/north-korea\">North Korea<\/a> has blown up a liaison office set up to improve communications with the South in a row over defectors\u2019 plans to send anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets across the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/jun\/30\/trump-and-kims-dmz-meeting-proves-more-than-just-a-photo-op\">heavily armed border<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s unification ministry said the North had set off an explosion at the joint liaison office at 2:49 pm, in the North Korean border town of Kaesong. The reports, from the Yonhap news agency, added that military sources had heard an explosion and seen smoke rising from the building.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/16\/north-korea-ready-to-send-troops-into-demilitarised-zone-as-leaflets-row-escalates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Jong-un\u2019s sister had said office, set up to improve co-operation with South Korea, was \u2018useless\u2019North Korea has blown up a liaison office set up to improve communications with the South in a row over defectors\u2019 plans to send anti-Pyongyang propagan&#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":[41,40,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-north-korea","category-south-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\/19360","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=19360"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19371,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19360\/revisions\/19371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}