{"id":48809,"date":"2022-09-25T11:27:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-25T02:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/25\/north-korea-fires-ballistic-missile-says-south-korean-military"},"modified":"2022-09-25T11:27:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T02:27:02","slug":"north-korea-fires-ballistic-missile-towards-sea-says-south-korean-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48809","title":{"rendered":"North Korea fires ballistic missile towards sea, says South Korean military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Launch of an unidentified missile is the latest in a record-breaking blitz of weapons tests by nuclear-armed Pyongyang this year<\/p>\n<p>North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile on Sunday towards its eastern seas, extending a provocative streak in weapons testing as a US aircraft carrier visits South Korea for joint military exercises in response to the North\u2019s growing nuclear threat.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s joint chiefs of staff said the missile launched from the western inland town of Taechon flew 600km (370 miles) cross-country on a maximum altitude of 60km (37 miles) before landing in waters off North Korea\u2019s eastern coast.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/25\/north-korea-fires-ballistic-missile-says-south-korean-military\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Launch of an unidentified missile is the latest in a record-breaking blitz of weapons tests by nuclear-armed Pyongyang this yearNorth Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile on Sunday towards its eastern seas, extending a provocative streak in weap&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2404,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-north-korea","category-south-korea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48809","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\/2404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48810,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48809\/revisions\/48810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}