{"id":36364,"date":"2021-09-03T13:22:49","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T04:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/03\/north-korea-kim-jong-un-rejects-covax-coronavirus-vaccine"},"modified":"2021-09-03T13:22:49","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T04:22:49","slug":"kim-jong-un-rejects-covax-vaccine-offer-as-north-korea-fights-pandemic-in-our-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36364","title":{"rendered":"Kim Jong-un rejects Covax vaccine offer as North Korea fights pandemic in \u2018our style\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unicef says country wants to send its UN-backed allotment of 3m Sinovac shots to other nations, with some experts believing it may want other vaccines<\/p>\n<p>North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ordered officials to wage a tougher epidemic prevention campaign in \u201cour style\u201d after he turned down some foreign Covid-19 vaccines offered via the UN-backed immunisation program.<\/p>\n<p>During a Politburo meeting on Thursday, Kim said officials must \u201cbear in mind that tightening epidemic prevention is the task of paramount importance which must not be loosened even a moment\u201d, the official Korean Central News Agency reported on Friday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/03\/north-korea-kim-jong-un-rejects-covax-coronavirus-vaccine\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unicef says country wants to send its UN-backed allotment of 3m Sinovac shots to other nations, with some experts believing it may want other vaccinesNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ordered officials to wage a tougher epidemic prevention campaign i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":283,"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":[41,1066,421,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36364","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\/283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36365,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36364\/revisions\/36365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}