{"id":5301,"date":"2019-08-01T12:48:40","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T03:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/01\/north-korean-soldier-defects-to-south-across-demilitarised-zone"},"modified":"2019-08-01T12:48:40","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T03:48:40","slug":"north-korean-soldier-defects-to-south-across-demilitarised-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=5301","title":{"rendered":"North Korean soldier defects to South across demilitarised zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defections across sensitive area dotted with landmines, fences and guard posts are rare<\/p>\n<p>The South Korean military detained a North Korean soldier who crossed the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2010\/jul\/21\/demilitarised-zone-north-korea\"> heavily fortified demilitarised zone <\/a>that separates the two countries, according to the South\u2019s joint chiefs of staff (JSC).<\/p>\n<p>The soldier expressed his intention to defect to South Korea, the JSC said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/01\/north-korean-soldier-defects-to-south-across-demilitarised-zone\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defections across sensitive area dotted with landmines, fences and guard posts are rareThe South Korean military detained a North Korean soldier who crossed the heavily fortified demilitarised zone that separates the two countries, according to the Sou&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[41,40,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-north-korea","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5301","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5302,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5301\/revisions\/5302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}