{"id":68255,"date":"2024-12-11T14:07:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T05:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/11\/north-korea-calls-south-dictatorship-martial-law"},"modified":"2024-12-11T14:07:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T05:07:03","slug":"north-korea-decries-dictatorship-in-south-in-wake-of-martial-law-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68255","title":{"rendered":"North Korea decries \u2018dictatorship\u2019 in South in wake of martial law attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State media in neighbouring country that has been ruled by a dictatorial dynasty since 1948 breaks silence to criticise President Yoon\u2019s \u2018gangster nation\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/north-korea\">North Korea<\/a> has broken its silence over the political turmoil in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/south-korea\">South Korea<\/a>, with state media describing, without any apparent hint of irony, how its president had unleashed a \u201cdictatorship on the people\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The commentary, released on Wednesday by North Korea\u2019s state-run KCNA news agency, was the first time the regime had commented publicly on the chaos that followed President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/04\/who-is-yoon-suk-yeol-south-korea-president-martial-law\">Yoon Suk Yeol<\/a>\u2019s doomed attempt last week to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/03\/south-korean-president-declares-emergency-martial-law\">impose martial law<\/a> to root out what he described as \u201cpro-North Korean, anti-state forces\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/11\/north-korea-calls-south-dictatorship-martial-law\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State media in neighbouring country that has been ruled by a dictatorial dynasty since 1948 breaks silence to criticise President Yoon\u2019s \u2018gangster nation\u2019North Korea has broken its silence over the political turmoil in South Korea, with state media des&#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":[41,40,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/68255","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=68255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68256,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68255\/revisions\/68256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}