{"id":57422,"date":"2023-08-10T09:42:10","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T00:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/10\/kim-jong-un-fires-dismisses-north-korea-top-military-general-pak-su-il"},"modified":"2023-08-10T09:42:10","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T00:42:10","slug":"kim-jong-un-fires-north-koreas-top-general-and-calls-for-weapons-production-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57422","title":{"rendered":"Kim Jong-un fires North Korea\u2019s top general and calls for weapons production boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leader replaces Pak Su-il with defence minister, Gen Ri Yong-gil, and urges further military drills<\/p>\n<p>North Korean leader Kim Jong-un dismissed the military\u2019s top general and called for more preparations for the possibility of war, a boost in weapons production, and expansion of military drills, state media reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>News agency KCNA said the chief of the general staff, Pak Su-il, had been replaced by General Ri Yong-gil but gave no further details. Ri is the defence minister, and it remained unclear if he would retain that role.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/10\/kim-jong-un-fires-dismisses-north-korea-top-military-general-pak-su-il\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leader replaces Pak Su-il with defence minister, Gen Ri Yong-gil, and urges further military drillsNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-un dismissed the military\u2019s top general and called for more preparations for the possibility of war, a boost in weapons prod&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"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":[421,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57422","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\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57423,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57422\/revisions\/57423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}