{"id":59756,"date":"2023-11-10T14:12:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T05:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/10\/north-korea-embassies-closing-shutting-embassy-diplomatic-missions"},"modified":"2023-11-10T14:12:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T05:12:53","slug":"kim-jong-un-closes-slate-of-north-koreas-embassies-as-sanctions-bite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59756","title":{"rendered":"Kim Jong-un closes slate of North Korea\u2019s embassies as sanctions bite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regime can no longer afford all its diplomatic missions, including some to longtime allies such as Angola where it has maintained ties since 1975<\/p>\n<p>While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/kim-jong-un\">Kim Jong-un<\/a> basks in the afterglow of his recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/17\/kim-jong-un-returns-north-korea-russia-trip-putin-weapon-transfer-deals\">visit to Russia<\/a>, North Korea is scaling back its presence overseas, with reported plans to close almost a quarter of its diplomatic missions blamed on its sanctions-hit economy.<\/p>\n<p>While the regime moves closer to China and Russia amid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/26\/china-japan-and-south-korea-agree-talks-to-calm-fears-over-us-ties\">new tensions<\/a> on the Korean peninsula, years of UN-led sanctions have forced it to close embassies and consulates in as many as a dozen locations, including those in countries Pyongyang views as longtime allies.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/10\/north-korea-embassies-closing-shutting-embassy-diplomatic-missions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regime can no longer afford all its diplomatic missions, including some to longtime allies such as Angola where it has maintained ties since 1975While Kim Jong-un basks in the afterglow of his recent visit to Russia, North Korea is scaling back its pre&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"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":[41,421,40,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea","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\/59756","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\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59757,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59756\/revisions\/59757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}