{"id":56039,"date":"2023-06-17T14:50:53","date_gmt":"2023-06-17T05:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/17\/north-korea-holds-key-meeting-as-us-sends-nuclear-submarine-to-south-korea"},"modified":"2023-06-17T14:50:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-17T05:50:53","slug":"north-korea-holds-key-meeting-as-us-sends-nuclear-submarine-to-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56039","title":{"rendered":"North Korea holds key meeting as US sends nuclear submarine to South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Jong-un attended the conference to review defence strategies and the country\u2019s struggling economy<\/p>\n<p>North Korea opened a key political conference with leader Kim Jong-un in attendance to discuss improving its struggling economy and reviewing defence strategies in the face of growing tensions with rivals, according to state media reports.<\/p>\n<p>The enlarged plenary meeting of the ruling Workers\u2019 party\u2019s central committee came as the US sent a nuclear-powered submarine to South Korea in the allies\u2019 latest show of force against the North, which has ramped up its testing of nuclear-capable missiles to a record pace in recent months.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/17\/north-korea-holds-key-meeting-as-us-sends-nuclear-submarine-to-south-korea\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Jong-un attended the conference to review defence strategies and the country\u2019s struggling economyNorth Korea opened a key political conference with leader Kim Jong-un in attendance to discuss improving its struggling economy and reviewing defence s&#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":[41,421,40,222,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea","category-south-korea","category-us-news","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\/56039","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=56039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56040,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56039\/revisions\/56040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}