{"id":23724,"date":"2020-10-12T14:27:21","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T05:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/12\/kim-jong-un-sheds-tears-as-he-delivers-rare-apology-to-north-korea-over-failings"},"modified":"2020-10-12T14:27:21","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T05:27:21","slug":"kim-jong-un-sheds-tears-as-he-delivers-rare-apology-to-north-korea-over-failings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23724","title":{"rendered":"Kim Jong-un sheds tears as he delivers rare apology to North Korea over failings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysts say emotional speech suggests Kim is feeling pressures on his leadership linked to Covid and nuclear sanctions<\/p>\n<p>The North Korean leader, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/kim-jong-un\">Kim Jong-un<\/a>, shed tears as he issued a rare apology for his failure to guide the country through tumultuous times exacerbated by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">coronavirus outbreak<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/10\/north-korea-military-parade-marks-ruling-partys-75th-anniversary\">huge military parade<\/a> held at the weekend to mark the 75th anniversary of the ruling Workers\u2019 party, Kim removed his glasses and wiped away tears \u2013 an indication, analysts say, of mounting pressure on his regime.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/12\/kim-jong-un-sheds-tears-as-he-delivers-rare-apology-to-north-korea-over-failings\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysts say emotional speech suggests Kim is feeling pressures on his leadership linked to Covid and nuclear sanctionsThe North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, shed tears as he issued a rare apology for his failure to guide the country through tumultuous &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":344,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23724","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\/344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23725,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23724\/revisions\/23725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}