{"id":33355,"date":"2021-06-22T18:00:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T09:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/22\/kim-jong-un-sister-us-north-korea-nuclear-talks-kim-yo-jong"},"modified":"2021-06-22T18:00:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T09:00:26","slug":"kim-jong-uns-sister-dismisses-hopes-of-us-north-korea-nuclear-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33355","title":{"rendered":"Kim Jong-un\u2019s sister dismisses hopes of US-North Korea nuclear talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Yo-jong\u2019s intervention appears to have thwarted any prospects for early resumption of negotiations<\/p>\n<p>Kim Jong-un\u2019s influential sister appears to have dismissed hopes for a breakthrough on nuclear talks with the US, warning Washington that it faced \u201cdisappointment\u201d if it believed engagement with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/north-korea\">North Korea<\/a> was a possibility.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/20\/kim-yo-jong-the-sister-of-kim-jong-un-fast-becoming-his-alter-ego\">Kim Yo-jong<\/a>, a senior figure in the ruling party who is considered one of the North Korean leader\u2019s closest confidantes, said any US expectations for a resumption of talks were \u201cwrong\u201d, according to the state-run KCNA news agency.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/22\/kim-jong-un-sister-us-north-korea-nuclear-talks-kim-yo-jong\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Yo-jong\u2019s intervention appears to have thwarted any prospects for early resumption of negotiationsKim Jong-un\u2019s influential sister appears to have dismissed hopes for a breakthrough on nuclear talks with the US, warning Washington that it faced \u201cdi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":344,"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":[41,939,421,40,441,45,47,631,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-joe-biden","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea","category-nuclear-weapons","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-us-politics","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\/33355","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\/344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33355"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33356,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33355\/revisions\/33356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}