{"id":55540,"date":"2023-05-29T13:41:05","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T04:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/29\/japan-may-take-destructive-measures-after-north-korea-announces-satellite-launch-dates"},"modified":"2023-05-29T13:41:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T04:41:05","slug":"japan-may-take-destructive-measures-after-north-korea-announces-satellite-launch-dates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55540","title":{"rendered":"Japan may take \u2018destructive measures\u2019 after North Korea announces satellite launch dates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo says any missile entering its territory will be destroyed as Pyongyang completes preparations to launch first military spy satellite<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s military has said it will destroy any North Korean missile that violates its territory and is making preparations to do so, after Kim Jong-un\u2019s regime told Tokyo it plans to launch a satellite between 31 May and 11 June.<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s chief cabinet secretary, Hirokazu Matsuno, said any launch by North Korea, even if termed a satellite launch, affected the safety of Japanese citizens. \u201cThe government recognises that there is a possibility that the satellite may pass through our country\u2019s territory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/29\/japan-may-take-destructive-measures-after-north-korea-announces-satellite-launch-dates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo says any missile entering its territory will be destroyed as Pyongyang completes preparations to launch first military spy satelliteJapan\u2019s military has said it will destroy any North Korean missile that violates its territory and is making prepa&#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":[41,88,40,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-north-korea","category-nuclear-weapons"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55540","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=55540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55541,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55540\/revisions\/55541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}