{"id":28369,"date":"2022-11-02T02:50:22","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T02:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=28369"},"modified":"2022-11-02T02:50:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T02:50:22","slug":"n-korea-fires-missile-south-of-maritime-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=28369","title":{"rendered":"N Korea fires missile south of maritime border"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BBC News:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>North Korea has fired a missile towards the South, which crossed the two countries&#8217; maritime border for the first time since the Korean War.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The short-range ballistic missile landed near the South Korean island of Ulleungdo, triggering the island&#8217;s air-raid alarm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Residents on the tiny island were told to evacuate and seek shelter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pyongyang fired a total of three short-range ballistic missiles off its eastern coast around 09:00 (00:00 GMT).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South Korean authorities immediately condemned the launches. President Yoon Suk-yeol has called a National Security Cabinet meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The missiles come a day after Pyongyang warned the US and South Korea to stop conducting joint military drills around the peninsula this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It had threatened to follow up with &#8220;powerful&#8221; measures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-63324857\">Why is Kim Jong-un upping the pressure?<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Both South Korean and Japanese authorities recorded the missiles on Wednesday morning, including the one which had breached the Northern Limit Line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That missile had fallen in international waters, about 26km south of the maritime demarcation border, 57km east of the South Korean city of Sokcho and 168km north-west of Ulleungdo island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News: North Korea has fired a missile towards the South, which crossed the two countries&#8217; maritime border for the first time since the Korean War. The short-range ballistic missile landed near the South Korean island of Ulleungdo, triggering the island&#8217;s air-raid alarm. Residents on the tiny island were told to evacuate and seek shelter. Pyongyang fired a total of three short-range ballistic missiles off its eastern coast around 09:00 (00:00 GMT). South Korean authorities immediately condemned the launches. President Yoon Suk-yeol has called a National Security Cabinet meeting. The missiles come a day after Pyongyang warned the US and&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28370,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28371,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28369\/revisions\/28371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}