{"id":37990,"date":"2021-10-14T12:41:49","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T03:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/oct\/14\/north-korean-leader-watches-extreme-martial-arts-performance-video"},"modified":"2021-10-14T12:41:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T03:41:49","slug":"north-korean-leader-watches-extreme-martial-arts-performance-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37990","title":{"rendered":"North Korean leader watches extreme martial arts performance \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North&nbsp;Korean leader Kim Jong Un has watched an extreme martial arts demonstration by soldiers at a military event marking the 76th founding anniversary of its ruling party. In the video aired by the&nbsp;North&#8217;s state-run television station, KRT, soldiers performed multiple shows of strength: smashing items, breaking free from chains, lying on glass and throwing knives. Kim smiled and clapped as he watched the show at the Defence Development Exhibition &#8216;Self-Defence-2021&#8242;. During the exhibition, Kim said his country&#8217;s weapons development is necessary in the face of the US&#8217; hostile policies and a military buildup in South&nbsp;Korea.<\/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\">North Korea\u2019s Kim Jong-un vows to build \u2018invincible\u2019 military and blames US for tensions<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/oct\/14\/north-korean-leader-watches-extreme-martial-arts-performance-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North&nbsp;Korean leader Kim Jong Un has watched an extreme martial arts demonstration by soldiers at a military event marking the 76th founding anniversary of its ruling party. In the video aired by the&nbsp;North&#8217;s state-run television station, KRT, &#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-37990","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\/37990","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=37990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37991,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37990\/revisions\/37991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}