{"id":33125,"date":"2021-06-15T14:43:57","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T05:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/15\/south-korea-japan-military-drills-disputed-islands"},"modified":"2021-06-15T14:43:57","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T05:43:57","slug":"south-korea-japan-ties-sour-amid-fresh-military-drills-near-disputed-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33125","title":{"rendered":"South Korea-Japan ties sour amid fresh military drills near disputed islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meeting of leaders at G7 reportedly cancelled over Seoul\u2019s decision to stage exercises around Dokdo islands, which are also claimed by Tokyo<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/south-korea\">South Korea<\/a> has begun annual military drills near a pair of remote islands that are also claimed by Japan, as the long-running territorial dispute threatened to sour preparations for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/olympic-games-2020\">Tokyo Olympics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The exercises near the Dokdo islands \u2013 referred to as Takeshima in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> \u2013 began days after a meeting between the countries\u2019 leaders on the sidelines of the Cornwall G7 summit was reportedly cancelled due to Japanese objections to the exercises.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/15\/south-korea-japan-military-drills-disputed-islands\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meeting of leaders at G7 reportedly cancelled over Seoul\u2019s decision to stage exercises around Dokdo islands, which are also claimed by TokyoSouth Korea has begun annual military drills near a pair of remote islands that are also claimed by Japan, as th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"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":[41,88,222,882],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-south-korea","category-tokyo-olympic-games-2020"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33125","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\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33126,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33125\/revisions\/33126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}