{"id":27333,"date":"2021-01-25T17:59:51","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T08:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/25\/latest-north-korea-defection-may-show-kim-jong-uns-power-base-drifting"},"modified":"2021-01-25T17:59:51","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T08:59:51","slug":"north-korean-envoy-defects-in-possible-sign-that-kims-power-base-is-drifting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27333","title":{"rendered":"North Korean envoy defects in possible sign that Kim&#8217;s power base is &#8216;drifting&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Acting ambassador to Kuwait fled for South last year, says fellow defector<\/p>\n<p>North Korea\u2019s acting ambassador to Kuwait has defected to South Korea in the latest high-profile escape from the isolated country.<\/p>\n<p>Ryu Hyun-woo had led North Korea\u2019s embassy in Kuwait since the former ambassador So Chang-sik was expelled after a 2017 UN resolution sought to scale back the country\u2019s overseas diplomatic missions.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/25\/latest-north-korea-defection-may-show-kim-jong-uns-power-base-drifting\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acting ambassador to Kuwait fled for South last year, says fellow defectorNorth Korea\u2019s acting ambassador to Kuwait has defected to South Korea in the latest high-profile escape from the isolated country.Ryu Hyun-woo had led North Korea\u2019s embassy in Ku&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"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":[41,421,40,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea","category-south-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\/27333","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\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27336,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27333\/revisions\/27336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}