{"id":37934,"date":"2021-10-12T16:15:14","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T07:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/oct\/12\/north-korean-leader-kim-jong-un-marks-the-76th-anniversary-of-ruling-party-video"},"modified":"2021-10-12T16:15:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T07:15:14","slug":"north-korean-leader-kim-jong-un-marks-76th-anniversary-of-ruling-party-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37934","title":{"rendered":"North Korean leader Kim Jong-un marks 76th anniversary of ruling party \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The North Korean leader, Kim&nbsp;Jong-un, has attended celebrations for the 76th anniversary of the founding of the Workers&#8217; party of Korea. Kim&nbsp;made a speech to a gathering of officials, the KCNA news agency said. State media showed&nbsp;Kim&nbsp;addressing a room full of officials, with little social distancing, masks or other Covid measures apparent. Kim urged officials to focus on improving citizens&#8217; lives in the face of a &#8216;grim&#8217; economic situation<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/12\/north-koreas-kim-jong-un-says-us-is-root-cause-of-instability-on-peninsula?utm_term=Autofeed&amp;CMP=twt_gu&amp;utm_medium&amp;utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1634004962\">North Korea\u2019s Kim Jong-un says US is \u2018root cause\u2019 of instability on peninsula<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/oct\/12\/north-korean-leader-kim-jong-un-marks-the-76th-anniversary-of-ruling-party-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The North Korean leader, Kim&nbsp;Jong-un, has attended celebrations for the 76th anniversary of the founding of the Workers&#8217; party of Korea. Kim&nbsp;made a speech to a gathering of officials, the KCNA news agency said. State media showed&nbsp;Kim&amp;nbs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[41,421,40,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea","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\/37934","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37935,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37934\/revisions\/37935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}