{"id":73597,"date":"2025-08-23T13:09:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T04:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/23\/north-korea-accuses-south-korea-of-deliberate-provocation-after-warning-shots-fired-at-soldiers-on-border"},"modified":"2025-08-23T13:09:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T04:09:47","slug":"north-korea-accuses-south-korea-of-deliberate-provocation-after-warning-shots-fired-at-soldiers-on-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73597","title":{"rendered":"North Korea accuses South Korea of \u2018deliberate provocation\u2019 after warning shots fired at soldiers on border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seoul says military fired warning shots on Tuesday after troops from the North briefly crossed border<\/p>\n<p>South Korea fired warning shots at North Korean soldiers who briefly crossed the heavily fortified border earlier this week, Seoul said on Saturday, after Pyongyang accused it of a \u201cdeliberate provocation\u201d that risks \u201cuncontrollable\u201d tensions.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s new leader Lee Jae Myung has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/10\/north-korea-removing-propaganda-loudspeakers-in-border-areas-amid-efforts-to-ease-tensions\">sought warmer ties with the nuclear-armed North<\/a> and vowed to build \u201cmilitary trust\u201d, but Pyongyang has said it has no interest in improving relations with Seoul.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/23\/north-korea-accuses-south-korea-of-deliberate-provocation-after-warning-shots-fired-at-soldiers-on-border\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seoul says military fired warning shots on Tuesday after troops from the North briefly crossed borderSouth Korea fired warning shots at North Korean soldiers who briefly crossed the heavily fortified border earlier this week, Seoul said on Saturday, af&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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-73597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-north-korea","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73597","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73598,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73597\/revisions\/73598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}