{"id":7688,"date":"2019-08-06T11:47:57","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T06:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=7688"},"modified":"2019-08-06T11:47:57","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T06:47:57","slug":"north-korea-fires-more-missiles-as-south-begins-joint-drill-with-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/7688","title":{"rendered":"North Korea Fires More Missiles as South Begins Joint Drill with US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea on Tuesday launched two short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea between the Korean Peninsula and Japan, days before the United States and South Korea were scheduled to begin a joint military exercise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The statement comes just an hour after the North fired on Tuesday &#8220;two projectiles that are assumed to be short-range ballistic missiles&#8221; from South Hwanghae province on its west coast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The missiles flew about 450km across the peninsula and into the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan, reaching an altitude of 37km and a speed of &#8220;at least Mach 6.9&#8221;,\u00a0South Korea&#8217;s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The North again expressed anger at US-South Korean military drills that began on Monday. It says they violate agreements reached with US President Donald Trump and South Korea&#8217;s President Moon Jae-in.<\/p>\n<p>While the main drills will start on 11 August, low-key preparation has begun.<\/p>\n<p>The US said it was monitoring the situation and consulting with South Korea and Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea on Tuesday launched two short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea between the Korean Peninsula and Japan, days before the United States and South Korea were scheduled to begin a joint military exercise. The statement comes just an hour after the North fired on Tuesday &#8220;two projectiles that are assumed to be short-range ballistic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1461,31,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-news","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7688"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7691,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7688\/revisions\/7691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}