{"id":25515,"date":"2020-12-09T14:15:35","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T05:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/09\/north-korea-says-south-may-pay-dearly-for-doubting-its-claim-to-be-covid-free"},"modified":"2020-12-09T14:15:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T05:15:35","slug":"north-korea-says-south-may-pay-dearly-for-doubting-its-claim-to-be-covid-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25515","title":{"rendered":"North Korea says South may &#8216;pay dearly&#8217; for doubting its claim to be Covid-free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Yo-jong, sister of North Korea\u2019s leader, accuses Seoul of seeking to damage political ties by questioning claim to not have any coronavirus cases<\/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>Kim Jong-un\u2019s influential sister has launched a stinging verbal attack on South Korea\u2019s foreign minister for questioning North Korean claims that the country does not have a single case of Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/20\/kim-yo-jong-the-sister-of-kim-jong-un-fast-becoming-his-alter-ego\">Kim Yo-jong<\/a>, the North Korean leader\u2019s younger sister, described the comments by Kang Kyung-wha as \u201creckless\u201d and accused her of seeking to damage already strained ties between Pyongyang and Seoul.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/09\/north-korea-says-south-may-pay-dearly-for-doubting-its-claim-to-be-covid-free\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Yo-jong, sister of North Korea\u2019s leader, accuses Seoul of seeking to damage political ties by questioning claim to not have any coronavirus casesCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageKim Jong-un\u2019s influential sister has launch&#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":[41,1066,421,40,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","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\/25515","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=25515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25516,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25515\/revisions\/25516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}