{"id":9884,"date":"2010-12-23T14:25:36","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T11:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=9884"},"modified":"2010-12-23T14:28:05","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T11:28:05","slug":"north-korea-holy-war-23122010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/north-korea-holy-war-23122010\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea ready for &#8220;holy war&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/north-korea.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9885\" title=\"north-korea\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/north-korea-280x140.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/north-korea-280x140.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/north-korea.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a><strong>North Korea&#8217;s armed forces minister has said his country is ready for a &#8220;holy war&#8221; using the nuclear deterrent.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kim Yong-chun said live-fire exercises conducted by South Korea near the border were a preparation for war with the North.<\/p>\n<p>The drill is one of the largest in South Korea&#8217;s history, involving tanks, helicopters and fighter planes.<\/p>\n<p>Tension has been high since North Korea shelled the South&#8217;s Yeonpyeong island last month, killing four South Koreans.<\/p>\n<p>South Korean President Lee Myung-bak has promised immediate retalation to any further Northern attack.<\/p>\n<p>The South Korean army acknowledged that the drill was aimed to display its firepower.<\/p>\n<p>Although the South has conducted 47 military drills this year, this is the largest winter live-fire exercise ever conducted on land.<\/p>\n<p>The North earlier branded Seoul&#8217;s exercises &#8220;warmongering&#8221; but until now had not threatened the South with any retaliation.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 8)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea&#8217;s armed forces minister has said his country is ready for a &#8220;holy war&#8221; using the nuclear deterrent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,63,56,101,14],"tags":[13695,13693,2070,13157,13569],"class_list":["post-9884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-events","category-politics","category-world","tag-holy-war","tag-kim-yong-chun","tag-south-korea","tag-south-korean-president-lee-myung-bak","tag-yeonpyeong-island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}