{"id":35156,"date":"2021-08-13T18:36:05","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T09:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/13\/north-korea-military-threats-intended-to-deflect-from-economic-crisis"},"modified":"2021-08-13T18:36:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T09:36:05","slug":"north-korea-military-threats-intended-to-deflect-from-economic-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35156","title":{"rendered":"North Korea military threats \u2018intended to deflect from economic crisis\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regime looking to shift focus from domestic problems with rhetoric around US-South Korea military drills, say analysts<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>North Korea\u2019s threat to boost its military capacity to counter hostility from Washington before joint US-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/south-korea\">South Korea<\/a> military drills is intended to divert attention from its economic crisis but could lead to a resumption of missile tests, according to analysts.<\/p>\n<p>While there is nothing unusual about North Korean opposition to the summer exercises involving American and South Korean forces, its warning this week that Seoul and Washington faced \u201cgreater security threats\u201d comes from a position of weakness not seen since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/kim-jong-un\">Kim Jong-un<\/a> came to power a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/13\/north-korea-military-threats-intended-to-deflect-from-economic-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regime looking to shift focus from domestic problems with rhetoric around US-South Korea military drills, say analystsNorth Korea\u2019s threat to boost its military capacity to counter hostility from Washington before joint US-South Korea military drills i&#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":[41,421,40,222,473,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea","category-south-korea","category-us-military","category-us-news","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\/35156","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=35156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35157,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35156\/revisions\/35157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}