{"id":44593,"date":"2022-05-18T07:56:54","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T22:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/17\/kim-jong-un-calls-north-koreas-response-to-covid-outbreak-inadequate"},"modified":"2022-05-18T07:56:54","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T22:56:54","slug":"kim-jong-un-calls-north-koreas-response-to-covid-outbreak-inadequate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44593","title":{"rendered":"Kim Jong-un calls North Korea\u2019s response to Covid outbreak \u2018inadequate\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leader accuses officials of inertia as total number of people with reported fever symptoms reaches 1.72 million<\/p>\n<p>North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has criticised his country\u2019s response to its first officially confirmed Covid-19 outbreak as \u201cimmature\u201d, accusing government officials of inadequacies and inertia as fever cases swept the country.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, North Korea reported 232,880 more people with fever symptoms, and six more deaths, a week after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/12\/north-korean-state-media-confirms-first-covid-death\">the country\u2019s first admission of the Covid outbreak<\/a>. It did not say how many people had tested positive for Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/17\/kim-jong-un-calls-north-koreas-response-to-covid-outbreak-inadequate\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leader accuses officials of inertia as total number of people with reported fever symptoms reaches 1.72 millionNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-un has criticised his country\u2019s response to its first officially confirmed Covid-19 outbreak as \u201cimmature\u201d, accu&#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":[41,1066,421,40,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","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\/44593","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=44593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44594,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44593\/revisions\/44594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}