{"id":11121,"date":"2013-04-06T10:50:18","date_gmt":"2013-04-06T09:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=11121"},"modified":"2015-01-14T21:15:37","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T20:15:37","slug":"the-brutal-reality-of-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=11121","title":{"rendered":"The brutal reality of North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is North Korea trying to instigate a war or just attempting some kind of political gamesmanship?<\/p>\n<p>We know very little about how and why decisions are made at the top of this brutal and secretive dictatorship. Probably\u00a0Kim Jong-un\u00a0is inventing the myth of an imminent American invasion in order to distract his people from the poverty and hunger than is their day to day reality or perhaps he is hoping to win some financial support from the USA in return for lowering the tension.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the &#8220;Mirror&#8221; newspaper provides a reminder today of how some 200,000 political prisoners are treated in North Korea&#8217;s gulags &#8211; see the story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/world-news\/north-korea-death-camp-survivor-1814554\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is North Korea trying to instigate a war or just attempting some kind of political gamesmanship? We know very little about how and why decisions are made at the top of this brutal and secretive dictatorship. Probably\u00a0Kim Jong-un\u00a0is inventing the myth of an imminent American invasion in order to distract his people from the poverty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11121"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16563,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11121\/revisions\/16563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}