{"id":23100,"date":"2020-09-25T16:44:35","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T07:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/25\/north-korea-apologises-for-unfortunate-killing-of-south-korean-official"},"modified":"2020-09-25T16:44:35","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T07:44:35","slug":"north-korea-apologises-for-unfortunate-killing-of-south-korean-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23100","title":{"rendered":"North Korea apologises for &#8216;unfortunate&#8217; killing of South Korean official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Jong-un says death \u2018should not have happened\u2019 after man shot in North Korean waters<\/p>\n<p>North Korea\u2019s leader, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/kim-jong-un\">Kim Jong-un<\/a>, has apologised for the \u201cunexpected\u201d and \u201cunfortunate\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/24\/north-korea-accused-of-killing-south-korean-official-and-burning-his-body\">killing of a South Korean official<\/a> this week after he drifted across the countries\u2019 maritime border, possibly in an attempt to defect.<\/p>\n<p>In a message to the South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, Kim said he was \u201cvery sorry\u201d, adding that the incident, which has raised tensions between the two countries, \u201cshould not have happened\u201d, according to media reports.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/25\/north-korea-apologises-for-unfortunate-killing-of-south-korean-official\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Jong-un says death \u2018should not have happened\u2019 after man shot in North Korean watersNorth Korea\u2019s leader, Kim Jong-un, has apologised for the \u201cunexpected\u201d and \u201cunfortunate\u201d killing of a South Korean official this week after he drifted across the cou&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":972,"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":[421,40,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kim-jong-un","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\/23100","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\/972"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23101,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23100\/revisions\/23101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}