{"id":56763,"date":"2023-07-19T10:53:04","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T01:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/19\/what-is-the-joint-security-area-north-korea-south-korea"},"modified":"2023-07-19T10:53:04","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T01:53:04","slug":"explainer-what-is-the-joint-security-area-between-north-and-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56763","title":{"rendered":"Explainer: What is the Joint Security Area between North and South Korea?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A US soldier who has been detained in North Korea reportedly entered the country during a tour of the JSA<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/18\/us-citizen-crosses-border-from-south-korea-into-north-korea\">US soldier detained by North Korea after crossing border during visit to DMZ<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A US soldier was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/18\/us-citizen-crosses-border-from-south-korea-into-north-korea\">detained by North Korea on Tuesday<\/a> after he crossed into the country \u201cwilfully and without authorisation\u201d, according to a US official.<\/p>\n<p>The soldier, Private 2nd Class Travis King, crossed the military demarcation line that separates the two countries while on a tour of the Joint Security Area (JSA) between North and South Korea. He is the first American detained in North Korea in five years.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/19\/what-is-the-joint-security-area-north-korea-south-korea\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US soldier who has been detained in North Korea reportedly entered the country during a tour of the JSAUS soldier detained by North Korea after crossing border during visit to DMZ A US soldier was detained by North Korea on Tuesday after he crossed i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1404,"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":[41,40,222,45,473,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-north-korea","category-south-korea","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-military","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56763","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\/1404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56764,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56763\/revisions\/56764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}