{"id":47567,"date":"2022-08-17T20:45:21","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T11:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/17\/north-korea-where-bicycle-licence-plates-are-non-negotiable-grant-shapps"},"modified":"2022-08-17T20:45:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T11:45:21","slug":"north-korea-a-model-for-grant-shapps-bicycle-licence-plate-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47567","title":{"rendered":"North Korea \u2013 a model for Grant Shapps\u2019 bicycle licence plate proposal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The secretive state demands each cycle display a registration number \u2013 although officially women are banned from bikes<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2022\/aug\/16\/registration-plates-and-insurance-for-cyclists-on-table-in-review-of-road-laws\">UK cyclists could be made to have registration plates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>If the British transport secretary, Grant Shapps, is looking for a \u201cmodel\u201d for his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2022\/aug\/16\/registration-plates-and-insurance-for-cyclists-on-table-in-review-of-road-laws\">bicycle registration plates proposal <\/a>he could turn to one of the world\u2019s most illiberal countries: North Korea.<\/p>\n<p>After decades of being frowned upon as a primitive means of transport for citizens of a modern, socialist paradise, cycling gained official acceptance in the secretive state in 1992 \u2013 although it is officially banned for women.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/17\/north-korea-where-bicycle-licence-plates-are-non-negotiable-grant-shapps\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The secretive state demands each cycle display a registration number \u2013 although officially women are banned from bikes\u2022 UK cyclists could be made to have registration platesIf the British transport secretary, Grant Shapps, is looking for a \u201cmodel\u201d for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"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":[41,676,40,4,593,2122,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cycling","category-north-korea","category-politics","category-transport","category-transport-policy","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\/47567","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\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47568,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47567\/revisions\/47568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}