{"id":63317,"date":"2024-04-14T05:39:15","date_gmt":"2024-04-13T20:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/13\/china-reaffirms-ties-with-north-korea-in-high-level-pyongyang-meeting"},"modified":"2024-04-14T05:39:15","modified_gmt":"2024-04-13T20:39:15","slug":"china-reaffirms-ties-with-north-korea-in-high-level-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63317","title":{"rendered":"China reaffirms ties with North Korea in high-level meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top-ranking Chinese official Zhao Leji met Kim Jong-un during three-day visit to Pyongyang<\/p>\n<p>A top ranking Chinese official reaffirmed ties with North Korea during a meeting in Pyongyang on Saturday with the country\u2019s leader, Kim Jong-un, China\u2019s state media reported, in the highest-level talks between the allies in years.<\/p>\n<p>The visit by Zhao Leji, who ranks third in the ruling Communist party hierarchy and heads the ceremonial parliament, came as North Korea has test-fired missiles to intimidate South Korea and its ally, the US.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/13\/china-reaffirms-ties-with-north-korea-in-high-level-pyongyang-meeting\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top-ranking Chinese official Zhao Leji met Kim Jong-un during three-day visit to PyongyangA top ranking Chinese official reaffirmed ties with North Korea during a meeting in Pyongyang on Saturday with the country\u2019s leader, Kim Jong-un, China\u2019s state me&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":272,"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":[41,50,40,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","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\/63317","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\/272"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63318,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63317\/revisions\/63318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}