{"id":45195,"date":"2022-06-06T09:29:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T00:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/06\/south-korea-and-us-fire-eight-missiles-into-sea-in-show-of-force-to-north-korea"},"modified":"2022-06-06T11:16:48","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T02:16:48","slug":"south-korea-and-us-fire-eight-missiles-into-sea-in-show-of-force-to-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45195","title":{"rendered":"South Korea and US fire eight missiles into sea in show of force to North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday morning launches demonstrate \u2018capability and readiness to carry out precision strikes\u2019 on regime, a day after it carried out its own launches<\/p>\n<p>South Korea and the US have <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USForcesKorea\/status\/1533626008447901700\">fired<\/a> eight surface-to-surface missiles into the sea in response to North Korea\u2019s launch of a similar number of ballistic missiles the previous day, a South Korea defence ministry official said.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea said Monday\u2019s tit-for-tat launch off its east coast was a demonstration of Seoul\u2019s \u201ccapability and readiness to carry out precision strikes\u201d against the source of North Korea\u2019s missile launches or the command and support centres, the Yonhap news agency <a href=\"https:\/\/en.yna.co.kr\/view\/AEN20220606000400325?section=nk\/nk\">cited the South Korean military<\/a> as saying.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/06\/south-korea-and-us-fire-eight-missiles-into-sea-in-show-of-force-to-north-korea\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday morning launches demonstrate \u2018capability and readiness to carry out precision strikes\u2019 on regime, a day after it carried out its own launchesSouth Korea and the US have fired eight surface-to-surface missiles into the sea in response to North Ko&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[41,40,222,473],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-north-korea","category-south-korea","category-us-military"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45195","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45195"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45199,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45195\/revisions\/45199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}