{"id":43081,"date":"2022-03-31T14:26:02","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T05:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/31\/testing-times-why-north-koreas-missile-launches-should-worry-the-west"},"modified":"2022-03-31T14:26:02","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T05:26:02","slug":"testing-times-why-north-koreas-missile-launches-should-worry-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43081","title":{"rendered":"Testing times: why North Korea\u2019s missile launches should worry the west"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recent test of an ICBM is a show of strength by Kim Jong-un and a reminder that he will have to be treated as an equal by the US in future talks<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to North Korean missile launches \u2013 and much else about the secretive country \u2013 all may not be as it seems. Days after the regime claimed it had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/24\/n-korea-confirms-missile-testing-ahead-of-long-confrontation-with-us\">successfully tested<\/a> its biggest intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), South Korea said it believed the launch had been faked.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cmonster missile\u201d, the South\u2019s military said, was in fact a Hwasong-15 \u2013 a smaller projectile previously tested in 2017, the last time Pyongyang fired missiles potentially capable of striking anywhere on the US mainland.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/31\/testing-times-why-north-koreas-missile-launches-should-worry-the-west\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent test of an ICBM is a show of strength by Kim Jong-un and a reminder that he will have to be treated as an equal by the US in future talksWhen it comes to North Korean missile launches \u2013 and much else about the secretive country \u2013 all may not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-north-korea","category-south-korea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43081","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\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43082,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43081\/revisions\/43082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}