{"id":61208,"date":"2024-01-16T12:18:10","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T03:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/16\/unification-with-south-korea-no-longer-possible-says-kim-jong-un"},"modified":"2024-01-16T12:18:10","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T03:18:10","slug":"unification-with-south-korea-no-longer-possible-says-kim-jong-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61208","title":{"rendered":"Unification with South Korea no longer possible, says Kim Jong-un"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a speech, the North Korean leader has called for constitutional change to identify the south as \u2018number one hostile state\u2019<\/p>\n<p>North Korea\u2019s leader, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/kim-jong-un\">Kim Jong-un<\/a>, has called for a change to the constitution to identify South Korea as the \u201cnumber one hostile state\u201d, ending the regime\u2019s commitment to unifying the Korean peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>In a speech to the supreme people\u2019s assembly \u2013 North Korea\u2019s rubber-stamp parliament \u2013 Kim said he no longer believed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/15\/korean-peninsula-will-be-united-by-2045-says-seoul-amid-japan-row\">unification<\/a> was possible and accused the South of attempting to foment regime change and promote unification by stealth.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/16\/unification-with-south-korea-no-longer-possible-says-kim-jong-un\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a speech, the North Korean leader has called for constitutional change to identify the south as \u2018number one hostile state\u2019North Korea\u2019s leader, Kim Jong-un, has called for a change to the constitution to identify South Korea as the \u201cnumber one hosti&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":344,"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":[41,421,40,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-kim-jong-un","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\/61208","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\/344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61209,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61208\/revisions\/61209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}