{"id":36885,"date":"2021-09-15T13:36:54","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T04:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/15\/north-korea-fires-two-ballistic-missiles-into-sea-south-korea-military-says"},"modified":"2021-09-15T13:36:54","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T04:36:54","slug":"north-korea-fires-two-ballistic-missiles-into-sea-south-korea-military-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36885","title":{"rendered":"North Korea fires two ballistic missiles into sea, South Korea military says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Launch comes as Chinese foreign minister is in Seoul to discuss stalled nuclear diplomacy and two days after North tests a new long-range cruise missile<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>North Korea fired two ballistic missiles into the sea off its east coast on Wednesday, South Korea\u2019s military has said, two days after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/13\/north-korea-says-it-has-test-fired-long-range-cruise-missile\">the North claimed to have tested a new missile in its first weapons test in six months.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s joint chiefs of staff (JCS) said the missiles flew from a central inland area towards the waters off the Korean Peninsula\u2019s east coast and that further analysis with US officials was under way. \u201cOur military maintains a full readiness posture in close cooperation with the US,\u201d the JCS said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/15\/north-korea-fires-two-ballistic-missiles-into-sea-south-korea-military-says\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Launch comes as Chinese foreign minister is in Seoul to discuss stalled nuclear diplomacy and two days after North tests a new long-range cruise missileNorth Korea fired two ballistic missiles into the sea off its east coast on Wednesday, South Korea\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"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":[41,40,222,45,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-north-korea","category-south-korea","category-us-foreign-policy","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36885","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\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36886,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36885\/revisions\/36886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}