{"id":57312,"date":"2023-08-06T12:21:53","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T03:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/06\/russia-ally-kim-jong-un-demands-more-north-korean-weapons-output"},"modified":"2023-08-06T12:21:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T03:21:53","slug":"russia-ally-kim-jong-un-demands-more-north-korean-weapons-output","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57312","title":{"rendered":"Russia ally Kim Jong-un demands more North Korean weapons output"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dictator tours factories making drone engines and rocket launchers and calls for \u2018rapidly expanding production capacity\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Kim Jong-un visited several major North Korean arms factories this week, including facilities making engines for strategic cruise missiles, and called for increased weapons production, state media has reported.<\/p>\n<p>The three-day inspection of the factories comes less than two weeks after the dictator attended a major military parade with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/28\/north-korea-unity-china-russia-military-attack-drones-parade-pyongyang\">Russian and Chinese officials, showcasing North Korea\u2019s newest weapons<\/a>, including intercontinental ballistic missiles and spy drones.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/06\/russia-ally-kim-jong-un-demands-more-north-korean-weapons-output\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dictator tours factories making drone engines and rocket launchers and calls for \u2018rapidly expanding production capacity\u2019Kim Jong-un visited several major North Korean arms factories this week, including facilities making engines for strategic cruise mi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1438,"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":[709,41,421,40,419,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arms-trade","category-asia-pacific","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea","category-russia","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\/57312","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\/1438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57313,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57312\/revisions\/57313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}