{"id":61384,"date":"2024-01-24T12:09:49","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T03:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/24\/north-korea-demolishes-the-arch-of-reunification-monument-south-korea-unity-hopes-kim-jong-un"},"modified":"2024-01-24T12:09:49","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T03:09:49","slug":"north-korea-demolishes-symbol-of-hope-for-reunification-with-south-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61384","title":{"rendered":"North Korea demolishes symbol of hope for reunification with South \u2013 report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Arch of Reunification \u2013 built in 2000 after a landmark inter-Korean summit \u2013 has disappeared from satellite imagery<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/north-korea\">North Korea<\/a> has demolished a monument that symbolised hope for reconciliation with the South, days after the regime\u2019s leader, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/kim-jong-un\">Kim Jong-un<\/a>, said the peaceful reunification of the two Koreas was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/16\/unification-with-south-korea-no-longer-possible-says-kim-jong-un\">no longer possible<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the latest sign of rising tensions on the peninsula, the Arch of Reunification \u2013 built in 2000 after a landmark <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2000\/jun\/13\/northkorea1\">inter-Korean summit<\/a> \u2013 has disappeared from satellite imagery, according to the NK News website. It was not immediately clear when or how it had been taken down, NK News said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/24\/north-korea-demolishes-the-arch-of-reunification-monument-south-korea-unity-hopes-kim-jong-un\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arch of Reunification \u2013 built in 2000 after a landmark inter-Korean summit \u2013 has disappeared from satellite imageryNorth Korea has demolished a monument that symbolised hope for reconciliation with the South, days after the regime\u2019s leader, Kim Jon&#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":[41,40,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/61384","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=61384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61385,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61384\/revisions\/61385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}