{"id":26670,"date":"2021-01-12T15:48:50","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T06:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/12\/north-korea-set-for-collision-course-with-us-as-kim-jong-un-solidifies-one-man-rule"},"modified":"2021-01-12T15:48:50","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T06:48:50","slug":"north-korea-set-for-collision-course-with-us-as-kim-jong-un-solidifies-one-man-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26670","title":{"rendered":"North Korea set for collision course with US as Kim Jong-un solidifies one-man rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: Congress gathering ends with Kim taking symbolic post of general secretary and a warning the US needs a fresh strategy<\/p>\n<p>A rare meeting of North Korea\u2019s ruling party has ended with a symbolically important new title for the country\u2019s leader, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/kim-jong-un\">Kim Jong-un<\/a>, speculation about the future of his influential sister, and a shot across the bow of the incoming US president.<\/p>\n<p>Less than two weeks before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/joebiden\">Joe Biden<\/a>\u2019s inauguration, much of what Kim told the first congress of the ruling Workers\u2019 party for five years had a familiar ring to it.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/12\/north-korea-set-for-collision-course-with-us-as-kim-jong-un-solidifies-one-man-rule\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: Congress gathering ends with Kim taking symbolic post of general secretary and a warning the US needs a fresh strategyA rare meeting of North Korea\u2019s ruling party has ended with a symbolically important new title for the country\u2019s leader, Kim&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"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-26670","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\/26670","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\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26670"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26747,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26670\/revisions\/26747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}