{"id":5463,"date":"2019-08-02T14:29:51","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T05:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/02\/north-korea-missile-tests-could-be-effort-to-divide-us-japan-and-south"},"modified":"2019-08-02T14:29:51","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T05:29:51","slug":"north-korea-missile-tests-could-be-effort-to-divide-us-japan-and-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=5463","title":{"rendered":"North Korea missile tests could be effort to divide US, Japan and South"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three launches in eight days point to ulterior motive amid strained relations between its neighbours and Washington <\/p>\n<p>The series of short-range missile tests by North Korea over the last eight days could be an attempt by Pyongyang to exploit strained US-Japan-South Korea relations, analysts have said. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/01\/third-round-of-short-range-missiles-fired-by-north-korea-says-south\">latest launches<\/a>, at about 3am on Friday from North Korea\u2019s east coast, involved the firing of two unidentified projectiles into the Sea of Japan. They follow<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/30\/north-korea-unidentified-projectiles-fired-south-korea\"> two tests in the past eight days.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/02\/north-korea-missile-tests-could-be-effort-to-divide-us-japan-and-south\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three launches in eight days point to ulterior motive amid strained relations between its neighbours and Washington The series of short-range missile tests by North Korea over the last eight days could be an attempt by Pyongyang to exploit strained US-&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":255,"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":[41,88,421,40,222,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea","category-south-korea","category-us-foreign-policy"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5463","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\/255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5464,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5463\/revisions\/5464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}