{"id":44153,"date":"2022-05-04T13:05:07","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T04:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/04\/north-korea-launches-suspected-ballistic-missile"},"modified":"2022-05-04T13:05:07","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T04:05:07","slug":"north-korea-launches-suspected-ballistic-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44153","title":{"rendered":"North Korea launches suspected ballistic missile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Jong-un had earlier vowed to quickly bolster nuclear arsenal and threatened to use it against rivals<\/p>\n<p>North Korea launched a suspected ballistic missile toward its eastern waters on Wednesday, South Korean and Japanese officials said, a few days after the North Korean ruler, Kim Jong-un, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/26\/kim-jong-un-says-north-korea-will-use-nuclear-weapons-at-any-time-if-threatened\">vowed to bolster his nuclear arsenal<\/a> \u201cat the fastest possible pace\u201d and threatened to use nuclear weapons against other countries.<\/p>\n<p>The launch, the North\u2019s 14th round of weapons firing, also came six days before a new South Korean president takes office for a single five-year term.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/04\/north-korea-launches-suspected-ballistic-missile\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Jong-un had earlier vowed to quickly bolster nuclear arsenal and threatened to use it against rivalsNorth Korea launched a suspected ballistic missile toward its eastern waters on Wednesday, South Korean and Japanese officials said, a few days afte&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[41,40,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/44153","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44154,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44153\/revisions\/44154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}