{"id":33611,"date":"2021-07-01T14:51:22","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T05:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/01\/kim-jong-un-signal-for-help-could-mark-a-turning-point-in-north-koreas-covid-fight"},"modified":"2021-07-01T14:51:22","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T05:51:22","slug":"kim-jong-un-signal-for-help-could-mark-a-turning-point-in-north-koreas-covid-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33611","title":{"rendered":"Kim Jong-un signal for help could mark a turning point in North Korea\u2019s Covid fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: leader\u2019s talk of huge crisis, despite no admission of Covid cases, comes amid concerns over health infrastructure and food shortages<\/p>\n<p>Almost 18 months after the start of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">Covid-19<\/a> pandemic, North Korea has come close to conceding that its attempts to keep the virus from its borders have failed.<\/p>\n<p>While North Korea\u2019s state-controlled media have not reported any cases, some analysts assume the virus has breached the country\u2019s defences, prompting its leader, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/kim-jong-un\">Kim Jong-un<\/a>, to issue a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/30\/north-korea-covid-outbreak-fears-after-kim-jong-un-warns-of-huge-crisis-in-antivirus-fight\">coded request<\/a> for outside help this week.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/01\/kim-jong-un-signal-for-help-could-mark-a-turning-point-in-north-koreas-covid-fight\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: leader\u2019s talk of huge crisis, despite no admission of Covid cases, comes amid concerns over health infrastructure and food shortagesAlmost 18 months after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, North Korea has come close to conceding that its at&#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":[1066,421,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33611","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=33611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33612,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33611\/revisions\/33612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}