{"id":57,"date":"2011-01-01T04:15:45","date_gmt":"2011-01-01T01:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/?p=57"},"modified":"2011-01-01T04:15:45","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T01:15:45","slug":"n-korea-calls-for-better-relations-with-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/01\/n-korea-calls-for-better-relations-with-south\/","title":{"rendered":"N.Korea calls for better relations with South"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NORTH Korea called for better relations with South Korea on Saturday, amid heightened tensions on the divided peninsula after the North&#8217;s deadly bombardment of a border island.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Confrontation between North and South should be defused as early as possible,&#8217; joint New Year editorials of three leading North Korean state newspapers said.<\/p>\n<p>Relations plunged after the North&#8217;s artillery attack in November that killed four people including civilians, leading to worldwide condemnation and calls for China to rein in its close ally.<\/p>\n<p>The South has since staged a series of military exercises, including a live-fire drill on Dec 20 on the shelled island, but the North did not follow through with threats of a new and deadlier attack.<\/p>\n<p>The newspapers said: &#8216;This year we should launch a more determined campaign to improve inter-Korean relations&#8230;&#8217; They went on: &#8216;Active efforts should be made to create an atmosphere of dialogue and cooperation between North and South by placing the common interests of the nation above anything else.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The editorial also reiterated that Pyongyang, whose nuclear drive has been the subject of currently stalled six-party talks, is committed to denuclearisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NORTH Korea called for better relations with South Korea on Saturday, amid heightened tensions on the divided peninsula after the North&#8217;s deadly bombardment of a border island. &#8216;Confrontation between North and South should be defused as early as possible,&#8217; joint New Year editorials of three leading North Korean state newspapers said. Relations plunged after the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}