{"id":4471,"date":"2018-11-21T00:31:23","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T00:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=4471"},"modified":"2018-11-21T00:31:23","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T00:31:23","slug":"north-korea-detonates-dmz-guard-posts-as-southern-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/11\/21\/north-korea-detonates-dmz-guard-posts-as-southern-border\/","title":{"rendered":"NORTH KOREA DETONATES DMZ GUARD POSTS AS SOUTHERN BORDER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/11\/guard-post-explosion-gty-ps-181120_hpMain_16x9_992.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4472\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/11\/guard-post-explosion-gty-ps-181120_hpMain_16x9_992.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"992\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/11\/guard-post-explosion-gty-ps-181120_hpMain_16x9_992.jpg 992w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/11\/guard-post-explosion-gty-ps-181120_hpMain_16x9_992-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/11\/guard-post-explosion-gty-ps-181120_hpMain_16x9_992-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/11\/guard-post-explosion-gty-ps-181120_hpMain_16x9_992-560x315.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/11\/guard-post-explosion-gty-ps-181120_hpMain_16x9_992-260x146.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/11\/guard-post-explosion-gty-ps-181120_hpMain_16x9_992-160x90.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 992px) 100vw, 992px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: ABC News<\/p>\n<p>By Joohee Cho Hakyung Kate Lee<\/p>\n<p>North Korea blew up 10 of its front-line guard posts in the Demilitarized Zone separating the two Koreas on Tuesday in accordance with agreements made with South Korea earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>The explosions were carried out simultaneously within a four-minute time frame after the North notified the South of the project, according to South Korea\u2019s Defense Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>North Korean soldiers have been destroying the brick structures over the past couple of weeks. Analysts said they most likely decided to demolish the guard posts all at once to meet the Nov. 30th deadline.<\/p>\n<p>A North Korean guard post that used to oversee the South Korean side of the heavily-fortified border was covered in black and white smoke after debris filled the air at the moment of the explosion. Video provided by South Korea\u2019s defense ministry showed the process of dismantling the guard posts.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/north-korea-detonates-dmz-guard-posts-southern-border\/story?id=59314370<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: ABC News By Joohee Cho Hakyung Kate Lee North Korea blew up 10 of its front-line guard posts in the Demilitarized Zone separating the two Koreas on Tuesday in accordance with agreements made with South Korea earlier this year. The explosions were carried out simultaneously within a four-minute time frame after the North notified&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/11\/21\/north-korea-detonates-dmz-guard-posts-as-southern-border\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NORTH KOREA DETONATES DMZ GUARD POSTS AS SOUTHERN BORDER<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4473,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471\/revisions\/4473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}