{"id":67249,"date":"2024-10-15T14:27:24","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T05:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/15\/north-korea-blows-up-roads-to-south"},"modified":"2024-10-15T18:08:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T09:08:39","slug":"north-korea-blows-up-roads-linking-it-with-south-prompting-warning-shots-at-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67249","title":{"rendered":"North Korea blows up roads linking it with South, prompting warning shots at border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roads have long been unused but destroying them sends clear message Pyongyang does not want to negotiate with Seoul, experts say<\/p>\n<p>South Korea has condemned North Korea after it destroyed roads linking the countries on Tuesday, in another blow to bilateral ties on the increasingly tense peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>The South Korean unification ministry, which overseas inter-Korean relations, described the North\u2019s decision to blow up roads on its side of the countries\u2019 heavily armed border as \u201cabnormal\u201d and a violation of bilateral agreements designed to lower tensions.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/15\/north-korea-blows-up-roads-to-south\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roads have long been unused but destroying them sends clear message Pyongyang does not want to negotiate with Seoul, experts saySouth Korea has condemned North Korea after it destroyed roads linking the countries on Tuesday, in another blow to bilatera&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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":[41,40,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-north-korea","category-south-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\/67249","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67249"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67259,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67249\/revisions\/67259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}