{"id":28140,"date":"2019-01-05T12:24:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T12:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28140"},"modified":"2019-01-05T12:24:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T12:24:21","slug":"historic-year-of-inter-korea-relations-sees-drop-in-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28140","title":{"rendered":"Historic year of inter-Korea relations sees drop in tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"65.6\">\n<p>North and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/south-korea.html\">South Korea<\/a> have seen plenty of tense standoffs and flare-ups in the past, but last year brought North Korean leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/people\/kim-jong.html\">Kim Jong Un<\/a> and South Korean President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/people\/moon-jae.html\">Moon Jae-in<\/a> together for three historic meetings.<\/p>\n<p>Improving relations are having a marked impact on the heavily fortified border between the two Koreas, with guardposts dismantled, armament reduced and hopes for a peaceful future beginning to spread.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Rob McBride travelled to Yeonpyeong Island, a short distance from the North Korean mainland.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North and South Korea have seen plenty of tense standoffs and flare-ups in the past, but last year brought North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in together for three historic meetings. Improving relations are having a marked impact on the heavily fortified border between the two Koreas, with guardposts dismantled,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":28141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}