{"id":38494,"date":"2021-10-30T10:15:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T01:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/30\/pope-francis-north-korea-moon-jae-in-visit-south-korea"},"modified":"2021-10-30T10:15:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T01:15:15","slug":"momentum-for-peace-pope-francis-urged-to-visit-north-korea-by-moon-jae-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38494","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Momentum for peace\u2019: Pope Francis urged to visit North Korea by Moon Jae-in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Korean president meets pontiff and gives him a cross made of barbed wire taken from demilitarised zone  <\/p>\n<p>The South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, has made a fresh attempt to have Pope Francis visit North Korea, at a meeting at the Vatican where the two leaders discussed peace efforts, Yonhap news agency said.<\/p>\n<p>Moon gave Francis one of 136 crosses created with barbed wire from a fence in the demilitarised zone, the division across the peninsula for the past 68 years.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/30\/pope-francis-north-korea-moon-jae-in-visit-south-korea\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korean president meets pontiff and gives him a cross made of barbed wire taken from demilitarised zone  The South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, has made a fresh attempt to have Pope Francis visit North Korea, at a meeting at the Vatican where th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[41,368,451,40,371,222,1705,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-catholicism","category-italy","category-north-korea","category-religion","category-south-korea","category-vatican","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\/38494","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38495,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38494\/revisions\/38495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}