{"id":19396,"date":"2020-06-17T14:59:53","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T05:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/17\/north-korea-raises-tension-with-pledge-to-send-troops-to-border-with-south"},"modified":"2020-06-17T14:59:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T05:59:53","slug":"north-korea-accuses-south-of-being-like-a-mongrel-dog-as-relations-worsen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19396","title":{"rendered":"North Korea accuses South of being like a &#8216;mongrel dog&#8217; as relations worsen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pyongyang news agency steps up war of words against Seoul as Kim Jong-un\u2019s sister says South\u2019s president has put his neck in \u2018noose of US flunkyism\u2019<\/p>\n<p>North Korea has accused South Korea of behaving like a \u201cmongrel dog\u201d bent on confrontation in a state media report that explains the regime\u2019s decision to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/16\/north-korea-ready-to-send-troops-into-demilitarised-zone-as-leaflets-row-escalates\">blow up a liaison office<\/a> \u2013 a move that has significantly raised tensions between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/kcnawatch.org\/newstream\/1592345824-27610560\/kcna-commentary-on-height-of-impudence\/?t=1592354447825\">commentary<\/a> carried by the state KCNA news agency said the South\u2019s defence ministry was \u201cbragging and bluffing, rattling the dialogue partner and stoking a confrontational atmosphere\u201d, and warned that Tuesday\u2019s destruction of the office \u2013 which opened in 2018 to foster better cross-border ties \u2013 could be a prelude to a \u201ctotal catastrophe\u201d in North-South relations.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/17\/north-korea-raises-tension-with-pledge-to-send-troops-to-border-with-south\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pyongyang news agency steps up war of words against Seoul as Kim Jong-un\u2019s sister says South\u2019s president has put his neck in \u2018noose of US flunkyism\u2019North Korea has accused South Korea of behaving like a \u201cmongrel dog\u201d bent on confrontation in a state me&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"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-19396","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\/19396","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\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19397,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19396\/revisions\/19397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}