{"id":50309,"date":"2022-11-17T13:51:20","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T04:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/17\/north-korea-launches-ballistic-missile-threatens-fiercer-military-response"},"modified":"2022-11-17T13:51:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T04:51:20","slug":"north-korea-launches-ballistic-missile-threatens-fiercer-military-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50309","title":{"rendered":"North Korea launches ballistic missile, threatens \u2018fiercer\u2019 military response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest missile test comes on the back of expanded military exercises between the US and South Korea<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/15\/north-and-south-korea-tensions-relations-issue-conflict-division-explained-in-30-seconds\">Korean tensions explained in 30 seconds<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>North Korea launched a short-range ballistic missile Thursday toward its eastern waters, South Korea\u2019s military said, hours after the North threatened to launch \u201cfiercer\u201d military responses to the US bolstering its security commitment to its allies South Korea and Japan.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s military detected the launch from the North\u2019s eastern coastal Wonsan area at 10:48am local time, the South\u2019s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement. It said South Korea has boosted its surveillance of North Korea while maintaining a military readiness and a close coordination with the United States.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/17\/north-korea-launches-ballistic-missile-threatens-fiercer-military-response\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest missile test comes on the back of expanded military exercises between the US and South KoreaKorean tensions explained in 30 secondsNorth Korea launched a short-range ballistic missile Thursday toward its eastern waters, South Korea\u2019s militar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[41,421,40,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea","category-south-korea","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\/50309","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50310,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50309\/revisions\/50310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}