{"id":20978,"date":"2020-07-26T08:15:38","date_gmt":"2020-07-25T23:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/26\/kim-jong-un-conveys-urgent-meeting-after-suspected-case-of-covid-19"},"modified":"2020-07-26T20:51:15","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T11:51:15","slug":"north-korea-declares-state-of-emergency-as-covid-19-case-reported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20978","title":{"rendered":"North Korea declares state of emergency as Covid-19 case reported"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Jong-un imposes lockdown on Kaesong, calling it a \u2018critical situation\u2019 <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The North Korean leader has declared an emergency and a lockdown in a border town after a person suspected of having coronavirus returned from South Korea after illegally crossing the border, state media has said.<\/p>\n<p>If confirmed, it would be the first case officially acknowledged by North Korean authorities.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/26\/kim-jong-un-conveys-urgent-meeting-after-suspected-case-of-covid-19\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Jong-un imposes lockdown on Kaesong, calling it a \u2018critical situation\u2019 Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe North Korean leader has declared an emergency and a lockdown in a border town after a person suspected of having &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[41,1069,421,40,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-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\/20978","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20978"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21011,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20978\/revisions\/21011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}