{"id":28524,"date":"2019-01-10T07:22:24","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T07:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28524"},"modified":"2019-01-10T07:22:24","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T07:22:24","slug":"north-korean-defectors-voice-concern-for-pyongyangs-missing-italy-envoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28524","title":{"rendered":"North Korean defectors voice concern for Pyongyang&#8217;s missing Italy envoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Seoul (CNN)<\/cite>A group of prominent North Korean defectors called on the Italian and South Korean governments to provide protection for Pyongyang&#8217;s former envoy to Italy Wednesday, as his whereabouts remain unknown. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Jo Song Gil, Pyongyang&#8217;s charg\u00e9 d&#8217;affaires in Rome, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/01\/03\/asia\/north-korea-italy-defector-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">disappeared along with his wife in early November<\/a>. His term was due to expire that month. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Italy has been without a North Korean ambassador since Pyongyang&#8217;s former envoy was expelled in 2017, following the country&#8217;s sixth nuclear test. Jo joined the embassy in May 2015 as the third secretary, according to South Korean lawmakers. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seoul (CNN)A group of prominent North Korean defectors called on the Italian and South Korean governments to provide protection for Pyongyang&#8217;s former envoy to Italy Wednesday, as his whereabouts remain unknown. Jo Song Gil, Pyongyang&#8217;s charg\u00e9 d&#8217;affaires in Rome, disappeared along with his wife in early November. His term was due to expire that month.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":28525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28524","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=28524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}