{"id":7730,"date":"2019-08-25T12:10:09","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T03:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/25\/north-koreas-kim-jong-un-oversaw-test-of-super-large-multiple-rocket-launcher"},"modified":"2019-08-25T13:56:04","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T04:56:04","slug":"north-koreas-kim-jong-un-oversaw-test-of-super-large-multiple-rocket-launcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=7730","title":{"rendered":"North Korea&#8217;s Kim Jong-un oversaw test of &#8216;super large multiple rocket launcher&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regime says Saturday\u2019s test launch was part of strategy to counter \u2018mounting military threats and pressure offensive of hostile forces\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, oversaw the test of a \u201csuper-large multiple rocket launcher\u201d on Saturday, the state news agency KCNA reported on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea fired what appeared to be two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea off its east coast, the South Korean military said, the latest in a series of launches in recent weeks amid stalled denuclearisation talks.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/25\/north-koreas-kim-jong-un-oversaw-test-of-super-large-multiple-rocket-launcher\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regime says Saturday\u2019s test launch was part of strategy to counter \u2018mounting military threats and pressure offensive of hostile forces\u2019The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, oversaw the test of a \u201csuper-large multiple rocket launcher\u201d on Saturday, the s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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-7730","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\/7730","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7730"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7739,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7730\/revisions\/7739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}