{"id":7303,"date":"2019-08-17T13:11:38","date_gmt":"2019-08-17T04:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/17\/north-koreas-kim-jong-un-expresses-great-satisfaction-after-test-of-new-weapon"},"modified":"2019-08-17T13:11:38","modified_gmt":"2019-08-17T04:11:38","slug":"north-koreas-kim-jong-un-expresses-great-satisfaction-after-test-of-new-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=7303","title":{"rendered":"North Korea&#8217;s Kim Jong-un expresses &#8216;great satisfaction&#8217; after test of &#8216;new weapon&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday\u2019s launch was sixth round of tests since late July, an apparent response to US-South Korea war games<\/p>\n<p>North Korea says leader Kim Jong-un supervised Friday\u2019s test-firing of an unspecified \u201cnew weapon\u201d, seen as an attempt to pressure Washington and Seoul over slow nuclear negotiations and their joint military exercises.<\/p>\n<p>Pyongyang\u2019s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said on Saturday that Kim expressed \u201cgreat satisfaction\u201d over his military\u2019s \u201cmysterious and amazing success rates\u201d in recent testing activity and vowed to build up \u201cinvincible military capabilities no one dare provoke.\u201d The report did not mention any specific comment on the United States or South Korea.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/17\/north-koreas-kim-jong-un-expresses-great-satisfaction-after-test-of-new-weapon\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday\u2019s launch was sixth round of tests since late July, an apparent response to US-South Korea war gamesNorth Korea says leader Kim Jong-un supervised Friday\u2019s test-firing of an unspecified \u201cnew weapon\u201d, seen as an attempt to pressure Washington and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[41,421,40,441,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea","category-nuclear-weapons","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\/7303","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7305,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7303\/revisions\/7305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}