{"id":53473,"date":"2023-03-16T10:22:15","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T01:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/16\/north-korea-test-launches-icbm-as-south-korea-and-japan-leaders-set-to-meet"},"modified":"2023-03-16T10:22:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T01:22:15","slug":"north-korea-test-launches-icbm-as-south-korea-and-japan-leaders-set-to-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53473","title":{"rendered":"North Korea test launches ICBM as South Korea and Japan leaders set to meet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol says North will pay a price for launch on eve of Tokyo summit<\/p>\n<p>North Korea has test-launched an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in a display of military might, just hours before the leaders of South Korea and Japan were to meet at a Tokyo summit that was expected to be overshadowed by Kim Jong-un\u2019s nuclear threats.<\/p>\n<p>The launch on Thursday, the North\u2019s first ICBM test in a month and third weapons test this week, also comes as South Korean and US troops continue joint military exercises that Pyongyang sees as a rehearsal to invade.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/16\/north-korea-test-launches-icbm-as-south-korea-and-japan-leaders-set-to-meet\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol says North will pay a price for launch on eve of Tokyo summitNorth Korea has test-launched an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in a display of military might, just hours before the leaders of South Korea an&#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":[41,40,441,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-north-korea","category-nuclear-weapons","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\/53473","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=53473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53474,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53473\/revisions\/53474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}