{"id":31832,"date":"2021-05-07T11:33:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T02:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/07\/north-korea-says-propaganda-leaflets-sent-from-south-could-carry-coronavirus"},"modified":"2021-05-07T11:33:54","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T02:33:54","slug":"north-korea-says-propaganda-leaflets-sent-from-south-could-carry-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31832","title":{"rendered":"North Korea says propaganda leaflets sent from South could carry coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State-run media in North warn people about a \u2018strange object flying in the wind\u2019 as South Korean police raid office of leaflet distributor<\/p>\n<p>North Korea has warned its citizens against reading propaganda leaflets sent via balloon over the border with the South, saying they could be carrying coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>The state-run Rodong Sinmun newspaper urged people to stay <a href=\"https:\/\/en.yna.co.kr\/view\/AEN20210506004200325\">away from the leaflets<\/a>, according to news agency Yonhap, saying: \u201cEven when we come across a strange object flying in the wind, we must consider them as a possible route of transmission of the malicious virus rather than a natural phenomenon.\u201d It advised people to \u201cthink and move\u201d according to Covid-19 guidelines.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/07\/north-korea-says-propaganda-leaflets-sent-from-south-could-carry-coronavirus\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State-run media in North warn people about a \u2018strange object flying in the wind\u2019 as South Korean police raid office of leaflet distributorNorth Korea has warned its citizens against reading propaganda leaflets sent via balloon over the border with the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"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":[41,40,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/31832","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\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31833,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31832\/revisions\/31833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}