{"id":56620,"date":"2023-07-12T13:30:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T04:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/12\/north-korea-fires-ballistic-missile-towards-japan"},"modified":"2023-07-12T13:30:02","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T04:30:02","slug":"north-korea-fires-ballistic-missile-towards-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56620","title":{"rendered":"North Korea fires ballistic missile towards Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rocket went 1,000km, says South Korea, after Kim Jong-un\u2019s sister threatened \u2018shocking\u2019 consequences for alleged US spy plane flights<\/p>\n<p>North Korea fired a ballistic missile off its east coast towards Japan on Wednesday, South Korea\u2019s joint chiefs of staff said, in a move that followed threats of retaliation for alleged US spy plane flights.<\/p>\n<p>The missile flew about 1,000km (621 miles) before crashing into the water, South Korea\u2019s military said. Japan\u2019s chief cabinet secretary said the missile came down about 250km west of Okushiri island in Japan\u2019s northernmost Hokkaido prefecture, after a flight taking 74 minutes that reached an altitude of more than 6,000km.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/12\/north-korea-fires-ballistic-missile-towards-japan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rocket went 1,000km, says South Korea, after Kim Jong-un\u2019s sister threatened \u2018shocking\u2019 consequences for alleged US spy plane flightsNorth Korea fired a ballistic missile off its east coast towards Japan on Wednesday, South Korea\u2019s joint chiefs of staf&#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":[41,88,40,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-north-korea","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\/56620","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=56620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56621,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56620\/revisions\/56621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}