{"id":19389,"date":"2020-06-16T20:07:01","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T11:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2020\/jun\/16\/north-korea-blows-up-liaison-office-in-row-over-defectors-leaflet-campaign-video"},"modified":"2020-06-16T20:07:01","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T11:07:01","slug":"north-korea-blows-up-liaison-office-in-row-over-defectors-leaflet-campaign-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19389","title":{"rendered":"North Korea blows up liaison office in row over defectors&#8217; leaflet campaign &ndash; video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/north-korea\">North Korea<\/a>&nbsp;has blown up a liaison office set up to improve communications with South Korea in a row over defectors\u2019 plans to send anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets across the&nbsp;<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>. North Korea appears to have acted on a warning by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/20\/kim-yo-jong-the-sister-of-kim-jong-un-fast-becoming-his-alter-ego\">Kim Yo-jong<\/a>, the increasingly influential sister of the country\u2019s leader, Kim Jong-un, to destroy the &#8216;useless&#8217; office.<\/p>\n<p>The office opened in September 2018 to facilitate inter-Korean cooperation after successful talks between Kim Jong-un and the South Korean president, Moon Jae-in.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/north-korea\">Latest news from North Korea<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/09\/north-korea-to-cut-all-communications-with-enemy-south\">North Korea to cut communication with South Korea&nbsp;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2020\/jun\/16\/north-korea-blows-up-liaison-office-in-row-over-defectors-leaflet-campaign-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea&nbsp;has blown up a liaison office set up to improve communications with South Korea in a row over defectors\u2019 plans to send anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets across the&nbsp;heavily armed border. North Korea appears to have acted on a warn&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[421,40,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kim-jong-un","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\/19389","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19390,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19389\/revisions\/19390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}