{"id":76690,"date":"2026-03-14T15:05:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T06:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/14\/north-korea-fires-projectile-towards-sea-amid-us-south-korea-military-drills"},"modified":"2026-03-14T15:05:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T06:05:01","slug":"north-korea-fires-projectile-towards-sea-amid-us-south-korea-military-drills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76690","title":{"rendered":"North Korea fires projectile towards sea amid US-South Korea military drills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Projectile was fired toward the sea off North Korea\u2019s east coast, the South Korean military said, days after Seoul and Washington launched major military drills<\/p>\n<p>North Korea fired a projectile towards the sea on Saturday, South Korea and Japan said, with Tokyo saying it may have been a ballistic missile, while the US and South Korea conducted military drills.<\/p>\n<p>The projectile was fired toward the sea off North Korea\u2019s east coast, the South Korean military said in a brief message to reporters. It gave no further details. Japan\u2019s coast guard said the projectile appeared to have fallen into the sea.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/14\/north-korea-fires-projectile-towards-sea-amid-us-south-korea-military-drills\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Projectile was fired toward the sea off North Korea\u2019s east coast, the South Korean military said, days after Seoul and Washington launched major military drillsNorth Korea fired a projectile towards the sea on Saturday, South Korea and Japan said, with&#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":[415,88,421,40,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","category-japan","category-kim-jong-un","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\/76690","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=76690"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76692,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76690\/revisions\/76692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}