{"id":30465,"date":"2021-04-01T20:58:32","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T11:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/01\/foreign-diplomat-collective-exit-from-north-korea-russian-embassy-staff-strict-covid-restrictions"},"modified":"2021-04-01T20:58:32","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T11:58:32","slug":"foreign-diplomats-in-collective-exit-from-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30465","title":{"rendered":"Foreign diplomats in &#8216;collective exit&#8217; from North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian embassy staff cite medicine shortages and unbearable conditions arising from strict Covid restrictions<\/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>Russian diplomats fleeing North Korea have described acute shortages of medicines and other basic goods in the country, indicating a crisis fuelled by one of the world\u2019s strictest quarantine regimes amid the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter posted online on Thursday, employees of the Russian embassy in Pyongyang described a \u201ccollective exit\u201d of foreign diplomatic staff that they predicted would \u201cunfortunately not be the last\u201d due to unbearable conditions in the North Korean capital.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/01\/foreign-diplomat-collective-exit-from-north-korea-russian-embassy-staff-strict-covid-restrictions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian embassy staff cite medicine shortages and unbearable conditions arising from strict Covid restrictionsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageRussian diplomats fleeing North Korea have described acute shortages of medicines &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2058,"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":[41,1066,40,419,565,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-north-korea","category-russia","category-vaccines-and-immunisation","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\/30465","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\/2058"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30465"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30482,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30465\/revisions\/30482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}