{"id":289048,"date":"2022-08-17T15:23:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T09:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nagalandpost.com\/?p=289048"},"modified":"2022-08-17T15:23:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T09:53:08","slug":"n-korea-fires-2-cruise-missiles-seoul-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2022\/08\/17\/n-korea-fires-2-cruise-missiles-seoul-official\/","title":{"rendered":"N.Korea fires 2 cruise missiles: Seoul official"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">North Korea test-fired two cruise missiles toward the Yellow Sea on Wednesday, a South Korean military official said, as President Yoon Suk-yeol held a press conference to mark the 100th day since taking office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;(The military) has detected two cruise missiles launched by North Korea from Onchon, South Pyongan Province, into the Yellow Sea early this morning,&#8221; the official said without providing further details, including the exact type of missiles and time of the firing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">South Korean and US intelligence authorities are conducting a related analysis, with the allies maintaining a firm readiness posture, Yonhap News Agency quoted the official as saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his Liberation Day speech two days ago, Yoon laid out the details of his &#8220;audacious initiative&#8221; meant to help the North improve its economy in the event it takes denuclearization steps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The North&#8217;s first known launch of a cruise missile since January also came a day after South Korean and American military troops kicked off preliminary drills just ahead of the start of their annual combined Ulchi Freedom Shield (UFS) exercise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the North is banned from making launches using ballistic missile technologies under U. Security Council resolutions, such a firing of a cruise missile is not in violation of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea test-fired two cruise missiles toward the Yellow Sea on Wednesday, a South Korean military official said, as President Yoon Suk-yeol held a press conference to mark the 100th day since taking office. &#8220;(The military) has detected two cruise missiles launched by North Korea from Onchon, South Pyongan Province, into the Yellow Sea early [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":289049,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}