{"id":44746,"date":"2022-05-23T14:26:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T05:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/23\/kim-jong-un-buries-mentor-amid-north-korea-covid-crisis"},"modified":"2022-05-23T14:26:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T05:26:40","slug":"kim-jong-un-buries-mentor-amid-north-korea-covid-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44746","title":{"rendered":"Kim Jong-un buries mentor amid North Korea Covid crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State media photos show Kim carrying Hyon Chol-hae\u2019s coffin and throwing earth into his grave as country battles \u2018fever\u2019 cases amid Covid outbreak<\/p>\n<p>Kim Jong-un attended the funeral for a top North Korean official, state media reported on Monday, helping carry his coffin, as the country maintained the much-disputed claim that its coronavirus outbreak is subsiding.<\/p>\n<p>The official Korean Central News Agency said Kim attended the funeral on Sunday of Hyon Chol-hae, a Korean People\u2019s Army marshal who reportedly played a key role in grooming him as the country\u2019s next leader before Kim\u2019s father, Kim Jong-il, died in late 2011.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/23\/kim-jong-un-buries-mentor-amid-north-korea-covid-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State media photos show Kim carrying Hyon Chol-hae\u2019s coffin and throwing earth into his grave as country battles \u2018fever\u2019 cases amid Covid outbreakKim Jong-un attended the funeral for a top North Korean official, state media reported on Monday, helping &#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":[41,1066,421,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44746","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=44746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44747,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44746\/revisions\/44747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}