{"id":4613,"date":"2019-07-26T10:25:17","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T01:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/26\/north-korea-trumpets-missile-launches-as-solemn-warning-to-south"},"modified":"2019-07-26T10:25:17","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T01:25:17","slug":"north-korea-trumpets-missile-launches-as-solemn-warning-to-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=4613","title":{"rendered":"North Korea trumpets missile launches as &#8216;solemn warning&#8217; to South"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State media says Kim Jong-un personally organised and guided test as part of quest for \u2018nonstop super powerful weapon systems\u2019<\/p>\n<p>North Korea\u2019s leader, Kim Jong-un, supervised the launch of \u201ca new type of tactical guided weapon\u201d as a \u201csolemn warning to South Korean military warmongers\u201d, the state news agency has said.<\/p>\n<p>Kim \u201cpersonally organised and guided\u201d the firing of the \u201cstate-of-the-art weaponry system\u201d on Thursday, KCNA said, a reference to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/24\/north-korea-fires-unidentified-projectile\">two short-range missiles fired into the sea.<\/a> It was Pyongyang\u2019s first missile test since an impromptu June meeting between Kim and Donald Trump in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/jun\/30\/trump-and-kims-dmz-meeting-proves-more-than-just-a-photo-op\">the demilitarised zone between North and South Korea<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/26\/north-korea-trumpets-missile-launches-as-solemn-warning-to-south\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State media says Kim Jong-un personally organised and guided test as part of quest for \u2018nonstop super powerful weapon systems\u2019North Korea\u2019s leader, Kim Jong-un, supervised the launch of \u201ca new type of tactical guided weapon\u201d as a \u201csolemn warning to Sou&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[41,421,40,441,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea","category-nuclear-weapons","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\/4613","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4614,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4613\/revisions\/4614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}