{"id":53355,"date":"2023-03-13T09:05:43","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T00:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/13\/north-korea-fires-cruise-missiles-as-us-south-korean-military-drills-begin"},"modified":"2023-03-13T09:05:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T00:05:43","slug":"north-korea-fires-cruise-missiles-as-us-south-korean-military-drills-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53355","title":{"rendered":"North Korea fires cruise missiles as US-South Korean military drills begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Test came as Washington and Seoul prepared to kick-off their largest joint military exercises in five years<\/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\">North and South Korean tensions explained in 30 seconds<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nuclear-armed North Korea test-fired two strategic cruise missiles from a submarine on Sunday, state news agency KCNA reported, just as US-South Korea military drills were due to begin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStrategic\u201d is typically used to describe weapons that have a nuclear capability.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/13\/north-korea-fires-cruise-missiles-as-us-south-korean-military-drills-begin\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Test came as Washington and Seoul prepared to kick-off their largest joint military exercises in five yearsNorth and South Korean tensions explained in 30 secondsNuclear-armed North Korea test-fired two strategic cruise missiles from a submarine on Sun&#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":[41,40,222,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-north-korea","category-south-korea","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53355","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=53355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53356,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53355\/revisions\/53356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}