{"id":42840,"date":"2022-03-25T07:49:14","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T22:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/24\/n-korea-confirms-missile-testing-ahead-of-long-confrontation-with-us"},"modified":"2022-03-25T16:24:44","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T07:24:44","slug":"north-korea-confirms-missile-testing-and-says-kim-jong-un-oversaw-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42840","title":{"rendered":"North Korea confirms missile testing and says Kim Jong-un oversaw launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State media says Kim Jong-un directly guided the launch of the powerful new Hwasong-17 missile<\/p>\n<p>North Korea has confirmed that it tested a new, powerful type of intercontinental ballistic missile, marking an end to a self-imposed moratorium on long-range testing in place since 2017 and drawing international condemnation.<\/p>\n<p>State media said on Friday that leader Kim Jong-un had directly guided the test of the Hwasong-17 \u2013 a \u201cnew type\u201d of intercontinental ballistic missile that is North Korea\u2019s biggest to date. He said the North would continue to develop a \u201cnuclear war deterrent\u201d while preparing for a \u201clong-standing confrontation\u201d with the US.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/24\/n-korea-confirms-missile-testing-ahead-of-long-confrontation-with-us\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State media says Kim Jong-un directly guided the launch of the powerful new Hwasong-17 missileNorth Korea has confirmed that it tested a new, powerful type of intercontinental ballistic missile, marking an end to a self-imposed moratorium on long-range&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"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-42840","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\/42840","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\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42840"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42867,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42840\/revisions\/42867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}