{"id":22462,"date":"2020-09-05T15:46:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T06:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/05\/north-korea-officials-to-be-punished-after-typhoon-causes-dozens-of-casualties"},"modified":"2020-09-05T15:46:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T06:46:00","slug":"north-korea-officials-to-be-punished-after-typhoon-causes-dozens-of-casualties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22462","title":{"rendered":"North Korea officials to be punished after typhoon causes &#8216;dozens of casualties&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State newspaper reports leaders will punish \u2018irresponsible\u2019 city and provincial officials for failing to protect residents<\/p>\n<p>North Korea has pledged harsh punishment for local officials it says failed to protect residents from a typhoon which caused a \u201cserious incident\u201d with dozens of casualties, the ruling party\u2019s newspaper reported.<\/p>\n<p>Typhoon Maysak brought heavy downpours across the country earlier this week, with footage showing a street inundated with water in the eastern port town of Wonsan, Kangwon province.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/05\/north-korea-officials-to-be-punished-after-typhoon-causes-dozens-of-casualties\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State newspaper reports leaders will punish \u2018irresponsible\u2019 city and provincial officials for failing to protect residentsNorth Korea has pledged harsh punishment for local officials it says failed to protect residents from a typhoon which caused a \u201cse&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[41,421,40,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/22462","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22463,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22462\/revisions\/22463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}