{"id":43266,"date":"2022-04-05T13:17:40","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T04:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/05\/north-korea-would-annihilate-south-if-provoked-warns-kim-jong-uns-sister"},"modified":"2022-04-05T13:17:40","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T04:17:40","slug":"north-korea-would-annihilate-south-if-provoked-warns-kim-jong-uns-sister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43266","title":{"rendered":"North Korea would \u2018annihilate\u2019 South if provoked, warns Kim Jong-un\u2019s sister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warning points to a rise in tensions on the peninsula after the North conducted its first intercontinental ballistic missile test in five years<\/p>\n<p>The influential sister of North Korea\u2019s leader, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/kim-jong-un\">Kim Jong-un<\/a>, has said the country\u2019s nuclear forces would \u201cannihilate\u201d the South Korean military if it launched a pre-emptive strike against the regime.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/20\/kim-yo-jong-the-sister-of-kim-jong-un-fast-becoming-his-alter-ego\">Kim Yo-jong<\/a>, who holds several senior positions in the government and ruling party, said the North had no intention of starting a second Korean war, but would respond if provoked and leave the South\u2019s military in a state of \u201ctotal destruction and ruin\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/05\/north-korea-would-annihilate-south-if-provoked-warns-kim-jong-uns-sister\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warning points to a rise in tensions on the peninsula after the North conducted its first intercontinental ballistic missile test in five yearsThe influential sister of North Korea\u2019s leader, Kim Jong-un, has said the country\u2019s nuclear forces would \u201cann&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":344,"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":[41,421,40,441,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea","category-nuclear-weapons","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\/43266","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\/344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43267,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43266\/revisions\/43267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}