{"id":49922,"date":"2022-11-03T04:50:03","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T19:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/02\/north-korea-recent-drills-show-west-cannot-ignore-nuclear-threat"},"modified":"2022-11-03T04:50:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T19:50:03","slug":"north-koreas-recent-drills-show-west-cannot-ignore-nuclear-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49922","title":{"rendered":"North Korea\u2019s recent drills show west cannot ignore nuclear threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Country firing close to South Korean waters in response to Washington-Seoul drills, as it also sells missiles to Russia <\/p>\n<p>In an overcrowded diplomatic nuclear space, the last thing the west needed to hear was that North Korea was back in business. It fired 25 missiles of various kinds on Wednesday \u2013 including one that landed close to South Korea\u2019s waters, in what President Yoon Suk-yeol said was effectively \u201ca territorial invasion by a missile\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It was the first time since the 1945 division of the peninsula that North Korea weapons had landed so close to South Korea, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/02\/north-korea-has-fired-three-ballistic-missiles-into-sea-south-koreas-military-says\">26km beyond the northern limit line<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/02\/north-korea-recent-drills-show-west-cannot-ignore-nuclear-threat\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country firing close to South Korean waters in response to Washington-Seoul drills, as it also sells missiles to Russia In an overcrowded diplomatic nuclear space, the last thing the west needed to hear was that North Korea was back in business. It fir&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"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":[40,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-korea","category-nuclear-weapons"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49922","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\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49923,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49922\/revisions\/49923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}