{"id":19729,"date":"2020-06-26T13:30:40","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T04:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/26\/north-korea-invades-south-korea-1950"},"modified":"2020-06-26T13:30:40","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T04:30:40","slug":"north-korea-invades-south-korea-archive-26-june-1950","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19729","title":{"rendered":"North Korea invades South Korea \u2013 archive, 26 June 1950"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>26 June 1950:<\/strong> North Korean forces cross into the South and capture a town 23 miles from the capital, Seoul<\/p>\n<p><em>Seoul, June 25<\/em><br \/>North Korean troops to-night crossed the River Imjin and captured the town of Musan, 23 miles north of Seoul, the Southern capital. A South Korean official report to Tokyo said about a thousand men and ninety tanks had crossed the river and that the defenders had put ten of the tanks out of action.<\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/theguardian\/2010\/jun\/28\/archive-north-korea-invades-the-south-1950\">From the archive, 26 June 1950: North Korea invades the South<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/26\/north-korea-invades-south-korea-1950\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>26 June 1950: North Korean forces cross into the South and capture a town 23 miles from the capital, SeoulSeoul, June 25North Korean troops to-night crossed the River Imjin and captured the town of Musan, 23 miles north of Seoul, the Southern capital. &#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":[41,40,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19729","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\/19729","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=19729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19730,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19729\/revisions\/19730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}