{"id":19497,"date":"2020-06-19T15:03:59","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T06:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/19\/south-korea-unification-minister-quits-as-tensions-with-north-mount"},"modified":"2020-06-19T15:03:59","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T06:03:59","slug":"south-korea-unification-minister-quits-as-tensions-with-north-mount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19497","title":{"rendered":"South Korea unification minister quits as tensions with North mount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Yeon-chul, who did not meet any officials from Pyongyang in his 14-month tenure, takes responsibility for deterioration in relations <\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s minister in charge of relations with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/north-korea\">North Korea<\/a> has resigned to take responsibility for a rapid deterioration in cross-border ties that has seen tensions rise on the peninsula in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The unification minister, Kim Yeon-chul, is to step down after his offer to resign was accepted by the South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, days after North Korea <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/17\/north-korea-raises-tension-with-pledge-to-send-troops-to-border-with-south\">blew up a liaison office<\/a> on its side of the border that was intended to foster inter-Korean cooperation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/19\/south-korea-unification-minister-quits-as-tensions-with-north-mount\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Yeon-chul, who did not meet any officials from Pyongyang in his 14-month tenure, takes responsibility for deterioration in relations South Korea\u2019s minister in charge of relations with North Korea has resigned to take responsibility for a rapid dete&#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":[40,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/19497","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=19497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19498,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19497\/revisions\/19498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}